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.
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