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shield Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for an armorer, from Middle English scheld ‘shield’ (Old English scild, sceld).
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived near the shallow part of a river, from Middle English scheld ‘shallow place’ (Old English sceldu, scieldu).
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail ‘descendant of Siadhal’ (see Shields).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shield Families in the US in 1920
Number of shield families
 31-59
 11-30
 1-10
 0
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