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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle High German scheid(l)er ‘mediator’, ‘arbitrator’. Compare Scheideman.
  • German : variant of Scheidt, the -ler suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : occupational name for a blade maker, from Middle High German scheide ‘(sword) blade’.

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