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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a jacket maker and also for an armorer, from Middle High German schecke ‘quilted jacket’, ‘coat of mail’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Schecke ‘dappled horse’ or ‘spotted ox or bull’.

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