About the Stollen Surname

The last name Stollen is one of the recorded forms of Stoll, a well-known German family name. Its meaning, shared with Stoll, is “Sturdy man”.

Related forms: Stolle, Stoller and Stollwerk. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The ending -en in Stollen marks an German derivative of the root behind Stoll.

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