Etymology

Shelmerdine

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English sċīrman
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromsċīrman“sheriff”
  2. English todayShelmerdine

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in England, perhaps from Old English sċīrman (“sheriff”) + denu (“valley”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.