Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Sussex) : from Middle English schulder ‘shoulder’; a nickname for someone with exceptionally broad shoulders or some deformity or other peculiarity of the shoulders.
  • Americanized form of Slovenian Šolar (see Sholar).

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe