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Shoulders

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Sussex) : from Middle English schulder ‘shoulder’; a nickname for someone with exceptionally broad shoulders or some deformity or other peculiarity of the shoulders.
  • Americanized form of Slovenian Šolar (see Sholar).

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