Shallow Family History
Shallow Name Meaning
Irish (Kilkenny and Wexford): variant of Shelley . English: nickname from Middle English shalou(e) ‘shallow’ conjectured also to mean ‘thin’; perhaps also the same word in the topographic sense of ‘shallow place in a stretch of water’. Americanized form of French Chalut .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022