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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (southern and eastern) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for someone who made or laid wooden roof tiles, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’.
  • South German : habitational name from places named Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel).

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