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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a trader, from an agent derivative of Alemannic schickelen ‘to deal or trade’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : possibly from a derivative of German schicken ‘to send’, with the agent suffix -ler.

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