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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (eastern) : habitational name for someone from Scheiben in Bohemia. The place name is related to Scheibe.
  • German : occupational name for a maker of window panes, especially the so-called ‘bull’s eyes’, from Middle High German schībe ‘disk’ + the agent suffix -(n)er.

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