Stelling Family History

English (North Yorkshire and Durham): from northern Middle English stelling ‘cattle fold’ (Old English stelling). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by or worked at a cattle fold or habitational from a place so named such as Stelling (Northumberland). English (North Yorkshire and Durham): occasionally a habitational name from Stelling (Kent). The place is probably named with Old English stelling ‘cattle fold’ but its name may also derive from an Old English personal name Stealla + the groupname suffix -ingas. Dutch: topographic name from a derivative of Middle Dutch stelle ‘land built up on mudflats behind a dike’. North German: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German stellinge ‘storage warehousing; (cattle etc.) stalls scaffolding framework’. German: habitational name from Stellingen or Stelingen.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022