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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Scheidt.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German scheide, German Scheide ‘sheath (of a sword)’, applied as a German metonymic occupational name for someone who made scabbards or a Jewish ornamental name.

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