Shimmel Family History
Shimmel Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schimmel . Americanized form of German Schimmel . English: variant of Shemeld apparently a nickname from an urecorded Middle English shimeld formally related to shimed ‘dappled dapple-gray speckled’ (with reference to horses) and thus used of people whose hair was dappled or grey-white. If so it is cognate with the name in 2 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022