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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German schoup ‘sheaf or wisp of straw’, hence a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a sheaf of grain for a licensed brewer, or perhaps a nickname for a scrawny person or someone with straw-colored hair.

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