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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and North Yorkshire, so called from Old English stōd ‘stud farm’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, ‘pasture’.

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