The stelling Surname
stelling Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from places in Northumberland and Kent. The former is probbly from an Old English stelling ‘shelter or fold for cattle’; the latter may be named with an unattested Old English male personal name, Stealla, + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’.
- Dutch: topographic name from a derivative of Middle Dutch stelle ‘land built up on mudflats behind a dike’.
- German: derivative of Stell 1, for a small cattle farmer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Stellings Of Idaho Colorado | William McCommon | 13 |
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| Elisabetha Frances (Schaefer) Stelling or Sterling - WI and IL |
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| Stelling family in or near Appleby | Robyn MacIntosh | 0 |
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