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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Scheidemann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for an arbitrator or judge, Middle High German scheideman.
  • German : habitational name from any of several places called Scheide(n), Scheidt.

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