English: topographic name from Middle English stille ‘calm’,
‘quiet’, + welle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or possibly a habitational
name from a minor place, now lost, of which the first element may have
been Old English stigel, stigol ‘stile’, ‘steep place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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