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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a shield maker or painter, from Middle High German schilt ‘shield’ + the agent suffix -er. Compare Schild.
  • Dutch (de Schilder) : occupational name for a painter of shields, a decorative painter, or a gilder, Middle Dutch schildere.

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