Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German schillinc, Middle Low German schillink, German Schilling ‘shilling’. The German surname may have referred originally to a rent or fee owed, or have some other anecdotal origin, now irrecoverable. The Jewish surname is mainly ornamental.
- German : habitational name from Schilling in Bavaria or from places called Schillingen in the Rhineland and East Prussia.