Is stahl a Russian last name?

Question

Is stahl a Russian last name?

Answer 1

This is all that I could find for you, it came from www.ancestry.com

Stahl Name Meaning and History

German: metonymic occupational name for a smith or armorer, from Middle High German stal ‘steel’, ‘armor’.

hope this helps.

Answer 2

Many Germans went to Russia to establish new towns and to bring needed skills to Russia in the 17th century.  So, after 300 years, a Russian could very well have a German surname

Answer 3

Ditto on the origin of Stahl being Germanic.

Answer 4

No. I don't think so. It looks German to me. It slightly resembles the Russian word for 'calm', which is stal'. But that's certainly not a surname and although the difference in English seems minor, the difference in Russian is not. It closer resembles the German word for it, which is exactly stahl. Now, there might be a Slavic connection if these people were among any that were exiled during the rise of protestantism in Germany---they mostly went to Slavic states like Slovakia. But the name itself is most definitely German.

Answer 5

German. It means Steel.