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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by or owned an area of woodland, Middle High German schache.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from an acronym of Hebrew śiftē kōhēn ‘lips of the priest’. This is the title of a religious commentary by Rabbi Schabtai Cohen.

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