Given name & surname

Schild

Schild is a surname from German. It is used in English, Spanish, French, German, and 2 other languages.

Original GermanSchildt

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Schild comes from German.

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How it developed

From German Schild.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Schild’s family of names

In German usage, Schild as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form SHIELD. In English usage, Schild as a surname has a related form in SCHILDT.

Walk Schild’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

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German

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German

Schindler

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German

Schonfeld

Schonfeld is a surname from German.

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German

Schamp

Schamp is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from German.

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Swabian

Schauss

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German

Schopp

“ladle”

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Hebrew

Schatz

“treasure”

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German

Schütz

Schütz is a surname from German.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Schild’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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