Frequency: (101)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Czech and Slovak (Šídlo): 1. metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from šídlo ‘awl’. 2. nickname for a restless or hyperactive person, a fidget, from a different sense of the same word.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
