The shields Surname

shields Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced form of O’Shields, an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail ‘descendant of Siadhal’.
Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from a pair of places in Northumberland and County Durham (now both in Tyne and Wear) called North and South Shields, named with Middle English schele ‘shed’, ‘hut’, ‘shelter’. There has been much confusion between Shields and Shield and their variants.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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shields Family Facts

Distribution of shields Families in the US in 1920

Number of shields families

458-913

153-457

1-152

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Please help with Shields family	hollieshields	24
Albert Leo Shields/McNamara/Desbro (sp)	feja66	0
Shields family from Ala to Tex	Susans9510	1
John Shields and the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Tracy Shields	9
Shields Family	dlforren	0
Ruby Lurena Shield	RICHRUBY22	0
Robert Shields/Mary McConnell family tree	Patty Fuller	5
James & Jane (Slessor) Shields	BettyAnn54	0
Shields Family from Iowa	@@Crschn@aol.com	55
SHIELDS Cleo and Santos Sandy	t42Moore	1

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