Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a joiner, from a word of Slavic origin. Compare Polish Stolarz.
- German (Switzerland and Upper Rhine) : habitational name for someone from a place called Stolle, near Zurich (now called Stollen).
- English : occupational name for a stole maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English stole ‘stole’.