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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for a piper, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch schufelen ‘to whistle’, ‘to play the flute’.
  • German : probably a variant of Low German Schüffler, an occupational name, a variant of Schaufler.

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