Stellman Family History
Stellman Name Meaning
Americanized form of North German Stellmann: topographic name for someone who owned a small cattle farm originally from land in (behind the dike) by a marsh from the old dialect word stel ‘bog’ + Middle Low German man ‘man’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Yiddish shtel ‘stall (in a market)’ + man ‘man’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022