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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Schell.
  • Dutch : habitational name from places called Schelle, in Antwerp and Overijssel.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch schelle, schille ‘(small) bell’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a town crier.

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