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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a maker of shears and scissors, or a metonymic occupational name for a cutter (of cloth, hair, etc.), from Middle High German schere, Middle Dutch sc(h)erre ‘shears’.
  • Jewish : variant of Scher.

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