Stell Surname
Approximately 5,320 people bear this surname
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.
Read More About This SurnameStell Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,781 | 1:95,863 | 10,729 |
| Germany | 418 | 1:192,597 | 22,279 |
| England | 406 | 1:137,237 | 13,423 |
| France | 209 | 1:317,812 | 48,279 |
| Brazil | 80 | 1:2,675,929 | 80,209 |
| Australia | 56 | 1:482,066 | 36,890 |
| Canada | 53 | 1:695,200 | 56,020 |
| Italy | 42 | 1:1,456,112 | 80,162 |
| Russia | 39 | 1:3,695,463 | 185,353 |
| Argentina | 32 | 1:1,335,732 | 76,713 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 1:1,228,926 | 53,021 |
| Panama | 23 | 1:170,098 | 5,250 |
| Ireland | 15 | 1:313,929 | 10,911 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Netherlands | 14 | 1:1,206,227 | 70,951 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Scotland | 9 | 1:594,869 | 21,724 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 1:646,903 | 40,014 |
| Turkey | 5 | 1:15,564,284 | 149,633 |
| Croatia | 5 | 1:845,721 | 48,179 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 448 | 1:54,409 | 6,508 |
| Scotland | 25 | 1:149,729 | 6,268 |
| Wales | 7 | 1:224,059 | 8,079 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 804 | 1:62,461 | 6,825 |
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.
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.
A northern pronunciation of stile. In Scotl. the spur of a hill.
(German.) A place, station, office.
Stell Demographics
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Stell Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Stell Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Stell (Russian: Стелл) is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Stell? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 90,123rd most frequent family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,369,839 people. The last name Stell is primarily found in The Americas, where 75 percent of Stell are found; 72 percent are found in North America and 72 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Stell is also the 278,400th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, borne by 856 people.
Stell is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 3,781 people, or 1 in 95,863. In The United States Stell is mostly concentrated in: Texas, where 16 percent are found, California, where 8 percent are found and North Carolina, where 7 percent are found. Outside of The United States this surname is found in 51 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 8 percent are found and England, where 8 percent are found.
Stell Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Stell has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Stell surname expanded 470 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it declined 9 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it declined 64 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Stell Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Stell last name are 8.44% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.21% 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
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiell | 91 | 189 | / |
| Steell | 91 | 117 | / |
| Staell | 91 | 6 | / |
| Stuell | 91 | 2 | / |
| Hstell | 91 | 1 | / |
| Stehll | 91 | 1 | / |
| Sstell | 91 | 0 | / |
| Sttell | 91 | 0 | / |
| Stoell | 91 | 0 | / |
| Stel | 89 | 2,231 | / |
| Stll | 89 | 1 | / |
| Steel | 80 | 37,557 | / |
| Still | 80 | 25,248 | / |
| Stiel | 80 | 2,109 | / |
| Stoel | 80 | 2,032 | / |
| Stehl | 80 | 1,173 | / |
| Stael | 80 | 726 | / |
| Shtel | 80 | 440 | / |
| Stelt | 80 | 196 | / |
| Steul | 80 | 181 | / |
| Styll | 80 | 69 | / |
| Stelp | 80 | 39 | / |
| Stesl | 80 | 31 | / |
| Ställ | 80 | 22 | / |
| Stuel | 80 | 8 | / |
| Sttel | 80 | 3 | / |
| Stöll | 80 | 1 | / |
| Shtll | 80 | 0 | / |
| Steld | 80 | 0 | / |
| Stellová | 77 | 25 | / |
| Stellova | 77 | 4 | / |
| Schstell | 77 | 1 | / |
| Steglilh | 77 | 1 | / |
| Stl | 75 | 36 | / |
| Stiehl | 73 | 3,715 | / |
| Steldt | 73 | 111 | / |
| Stehel | 73 | 109 | / |
| Steuhl | 73 | 88 | / |
| Sstiel | 73 | 70 | / |
| Shtesl | 73 | 45 | / |
| Stegli | 73 | 10 | / |
| Stteel | 73 | 10 | / |
| Sztill | 73 | 9 | / |
| Shtill | 73 | 7 | / |
| Shtelp | 73 | 5 | / |
| Stuehl | 73 | 4 | / |
| Staehl | 73 | 2 | / |
| Stilhl | 73 | 1 | / |
| Steeld | 73 | 1 | / |
| Shtyll | 73 | 1 | / |
| Steelh | 73 | 1 | / |
| Steehl | 73 | 0 | / |
| Stoehl | 73 | 0 | / |
| Stil | 67 | 2,198 | / |
| Stål | 67 | 1,059 | / |
| Sthl | 67 | 346 | / |
| Styl | 67 | 204 | / |
| Stelova | 67 | 10 | / |
| Stelová | 67 | 5 | / |
| Ztel | 67 | 5 | / |
| Stehele | 67 | 3 | / |
| Sztl | 67 | 2 | / |
| Shtl | 67 | 2 | / |
| Stlp | 67 | 2 | / |
| Sttl | 67 | 1 | / |
| Hstl | 67 | 1 | / |
Stell Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Stell in the Russian language | ||
| Стелл | stell | - |
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