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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Šídlo) : metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from šídlo ‘awl’.
  • Czech and Slovak (Šídlo) : nickname for a restless or hyperactive person, a fidget, from a different sense of the same word.

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