Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname from Middle High German schallære ‘braggart’, ‘orator’, ‘babbler’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a trumpeter or a shofar player, from an agent derivative of Yiddish shaln ‘to sound’.
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