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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Schaaf.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental or occupational name from German Schaf ‘sheep’.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a tubmaker, from Middle High German schaff(e) ‘wooden vessel’, ‘scoop’ (see Scheffel).

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