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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Schielein, a variant of Schühlein, a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle High German scuoch ‘shoe’ + the diminutive suffix līn.

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