Sindel

Family name origins & meanings

• German : nickname for a useless person, from Middle High German sinder, sindel ‘slag’, ‘cinder’.
• German : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Sind (see Sindt).
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Zindl.
• Hungarian (Sindely) : metonymic occupational name for a roofer, from zsindely ‘shingle’, ‘wooden roof tile’.