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Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage French
Meaning & History
Metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Old French soulier ‘shoe’, ‘sandal’.
From a derivative of Old French soule ‘platform’, ‘storey’,(see Soule), a topographic name for someone who lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages.
From a derivative of Old French soule ‘platform’, ‘storey’,(see Soule), a topographic name for someone who lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages.