Shade Family History
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Shade Name Meaning
topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, from Old English scead ‘boundary’. nickname for a very thin man, from Middle English schade ‘shadow’, ‘wraith’. Americanized spelling of German and Dutch Schade.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Shad, Slade, Schade, Sale, Shada, Dade, Hase, Shadle, Sade, Shane