Family name origins & meanings
- English (Lancashire and Cheshire) : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, or an altered form of Chandler.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Schändle,either a variant of Schandel, a metonymic occupational name for a candle maker, from Middle High German schandel (from French chandelle ‘candle’), or a derogatory nickname for an evil-doer, from a diminutive of Middle High German schande ‘shame’, ‘disgrace’, ‘ignominy’.