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Shingle as a thin piece of wood derives from 1200, scincles, from Latin scindula. The meaning you are referring to is shingle as a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer and appears in American English in 1842. As u/TechnologyEvangelist states, the story goes that a shake (wooden) shingle was used to make the sign. The source for the date and reference is The American Language Supplement by H.L. Menken - 1945