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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Stoppelbein or its variant Stupfelbein, probably a nickname for a person a stump leg, from Middle High German stupfe(l) ‘stubble’, ‘stump’, + bein ‘leg’, ‘bone’.

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