The schilling Surname
schilling Name Meaning and History
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German schillinc, Middle Low German schillink, German Schilling ‘shilling’. The German surname may have referred originally to a rent or fee owed, or have some other anecdotal origin, now irrecoverable. The Jewish surname is mainly ornamental.
- German: habitational name from Schilling in Bavaria or from places called Schillingen in the Rhineland and East Prussia.
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