Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of German Schindeldecker, an occupational name for a roofer, composed of Middle High German schindel ‘shingle’, ‘wooden tile’ + an agent derivative of decken ‘to cover (a building)’, ‘to roof’.
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