Stillman Name Meaning. English and German (Stillmann): variant of Still. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname or ornamental name, from German still 'calm', 'quiet' + Mann 'man' (Yiddish shtil + man).
Stillman Name Meaning. English and German (Stillmann): variant of Still. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname or ornamental name, from German still 'calm', 'quiet' + Mann 'man' (Yiddish shtil + man).
SDB Popularity ranking: 7713. This interesting name, with variant spelling Stileman, has two distinct possible origins, the first deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century 'Stille' meaning 'calm' and 'quiet' plus 'mann', a man, and originally given as a descriptive nickname to one of serene disposition.
The place is thought to have been situated in Surrey, and the name means "the fish-trap in the stream", derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century "stiell, staell", place for catching fish, and "well, waell", stream, spring, well. As a topographical surname, Stillwell denotes residence by such a place.
Stock Name Meaning. ... German: from Middle German stoc 'tree', 'tree stump', hence a topographic name equivalent to 1, but sometimes also a nickname for an impolite or obstinate person.
Stock Name Meaning. English: probably for the most part a topographic name for someone who lived near the trunk or stump of a large tree, Middle English stocke (Old English stocc). In some cases the reference may be to a primitive foot-bridge over a stream consisting of a felled tree trunk.
Stockard Name Meaning. Scottish: occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc 'Gaelic trumpet'. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes. Dutch: nickname from a derivative of Middle Dutch stoken, stocken 'to attack or knock with a stick'.
Stockard Name Meaning. Scottish: occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc 'Gaelic trumpet'. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.
Stockley Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, County Durham, and Staffordshire, called Stockleigh or Stockley, from Old English stocc 'tree trunk' + leah 'clearing'.
Stockwell is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Stockwell family once lived in either of the settlements called Stockwell in Surrey or Somerset, or near any footbridge over a stream.
