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The schindler Surname

schindler Name Meaning and History

  1. German (southern and eastern) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who made or laid wooden roof tiles, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’.
  2. South German: habitational name from places named Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel).

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Distribution of schindler Families in the US in 1920
Number of schindler families
 114-225
 39-113
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