The scammell Surname
scammell Name Meaning and History
- metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a meat or fish market, from Old English scamol ‘bench (on which meat was laid out for sale)’.
- possibly from an unattested Middle English personal name, Skammel, a diminutive of an Old Norse byname from skammr ‘short’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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