The schindler Surname
schindler Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- South German: habitational name from places named Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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