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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : nickname for a lumpish person or a farmer, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch scholle ‘clod of earth’.
  • Dutch and North German : from Middle Dutch scholle, schulle ‘flounder’, ‘plaice’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or a fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a flouder.
  • German (Schöll) : variant of Schell.

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