Stell Surname

90,123rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,320 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Stell Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Steel'. The old Danish Staal (v. Yonge); Icel. Stal. Lower says,' A northern pronunciation of stile.' This is quite inadmissible. All early instances are without prefix. Besides, as 'atte style' became Styles, so 'atte steel' would have become Steels.

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Stell Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,7811:95,86310,729
Germany4181:192,59722,279
England4061:137,23713,423
France2091:317,81248,279
Brazil801:2,675,92980,209
Australia561:482,06636,890
Canada531:695,20056,020
Italy421:1,456,11280,162
Russia391:3,695,463185,353
Argentina321:1,335,73276,713
Malaysia241:1,228,92653,021
Panama231:170,0985,250
Ireland151:313,92910,911
India151:51,137,692512,385
Netherlands141:1,206,22770,951
Thailand141:5,045,596363,835
Denmark101:564,47234,222
Switzerland101:821,29253,588
Scotland91:594,86921,724
New Zealand71:646,90340,014
Turkey51:15,564,284149,633
Croatia51:845,72148,179
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Sweden51:1,969,351134,077
Poland41:9,502,187181,606
Nigeria41:44,285,690437,567
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
Chile31:5,872,15852,204
Belarus21:4,750,530139,516
Iran21:38,391,262236,033
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Georgia21:1,872,77235,618
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Armenia11:2,930,18022,770
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Slovenia11:2,487,67531,128
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Paraguay11:7,236,74616,511
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Jersey11:99,2026,620
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
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Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4481:54,4096,508
Scotland251:149,7296,268
Wales71:224,0598,079
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States8041:62,4616,825

Stell (856) may also be a first name.

Stell Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Steel'. The old Danish Staal (v. Yonge); Icel. Stal. Lower says,' A northern pronunciation of stile.' This is quite inadmissible. All early instances are without prefix. Besides, as 'atte style' became Styles, so 'atte steel' would have become Steels. It will be noticeable that all my examples are from the East Coast The Scandinavian origin is manifest. Iron and steel are components of many of these early northern personal names; v. Stallard.

Robert Stele, Lincolnshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

John Stel, Suffolk, ibid.

Johannes Stele, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Wilmus Steel, 1379: ibid.

Willelmus Stele, 1379: ibid.

1651. Married — John Steele, batchler, and Abigell Hannkok: St. Mary Aldermary.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Of local origin. There are places so named in the shires of Ayr, Berwick, and Dumfries. In Berwickshire the old parish of Steill is now Ladykirk. Henry Stel was juror on inquisition on lands of Hopkelchoc, 1259 (Bain, I, 2162), and William Stele, burgess of Edinburgh, 1423 (Egidii, p. 45). John Steil or Steyll appears as prebendary of Kilmoir, 1434 and 1448 (REB., I, 60; II, 74), and another John Stevll was tenant of part of Cowpergrange, 1486 (Cupar-Angus, I, p. 239). John Steill alios Kempy Steill was hanged for theft, 1524 (Trials, I, p. 126), George Steyll was the king's familiar servitor, 1530 (RMS., III, 957), and Jok Steill appears in the toune of Bowdene, 1567 (Kelso, p. 519). William Steill was piper to one of the two companies of Highland bowmen raised in Argyll, 1627, for service in France. William Steel (1809-1881), noted anti-slavery advocate and one of the organizers of the "underground railroad" (a system of secret co-operation for assisting fugitive slaves to escape to Canada), was born in Biggar, Lanarkshire. Steell 1691, Steile 1453, Stey 1446, Still 1686.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

A northern pronunciation of stile. In Scotl. the spur of a hill.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

(German.) A place, station, office.

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur
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Stell Demographics

Average Stell Salary in
United States

$41,308 USD

Per year
Rank:
707,420 of 1,180,305
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00103022
Rank: 10,768 of 1,181,369
Percentage of national average salary:
95.73%
Sample size: 2,127 (2014)

Average Salary in
United States

$43,149 USD

Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD

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Stell Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Stell Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Stell (Russian: Стелл) occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Stell? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 90,123rd most frequently occurring last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 1,369,839 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 75 percent of Stell reside; 72 percent reside in North America and 72 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Stell is also the 278,400th most numerous first name in the world, held by 856 people.

The surname is most commonly used in The United States, where it is carried by 3,781 people, or 1 in 95,863. In The United States it is most common in: Texas, where 16 percent live, California, where 8 percent live and North Carolina, where 7 percent live. Other than The United States this last name exists in 51 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 8 percent live and England, where 8 percent live.

Stell Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Stell has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Stell last name expanded 470 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it decreased 9 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it decreased 64 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Stell Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Stell surname are 8.44% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.21% being registered with the party.

The amount Stell earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 4.27% less than the national average, earning $41,308 USD per year and in Canada they earn 29.76% more than the national average, earning $64,468 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Stiell91189/
Steell91117/
Staell916/
Stuell912/
Hstell911/
Stehll911/
Sstell910/
Sttell910/
Stoell910/
Stel892,231/
Stll891/
Steel8037,557/
Still8025,248/
Stiel802,109/
Stoel802,032/
Stehl801,173/
Stael80726/
Shtel80440/
Stelt80196/
Steul80181/
Styll8069/
Stelp8039/
Stesl8031/
Ställ8022/
Stuel808/
Sttel803/
Stöll801/
Shtll800/
Steld800/
Stellová7725/
Stellova774/
Schstell771/
Steglilh771/
Stl7536/
Stiehl733,715/
Steldt73111/
Stehel73109/
Steuhl7388/
Sstiel7370/
Shtesl7345/
Stegli7310/
Stteel7310/
Sztill739/
Shtill737/
Shtelp735/
Stuehl734/
Staehl732/
Stilhl731/
Steeld731/
Shtyll731/
Steelh731/
Steehl730/
Stoehl730/
Stil672,198/
Stål671,059/
Sthl67346/
Styl67204/
Stelova6710/
Stelová675/
Ztel675/
Stehele673/
Sztl672/
Shtl672/
Stlp672/
Sttl671/
Hstl671/
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Stell Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Stell in the Russian language
Стеллstell-

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