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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Old French soulier ‘shoe’, ‘sandal’.
  • French : from a derivative of Old French soule ‘platform’, ‘storey’, a topographic name for someone who lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages.

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