Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname for someone with a radiant face or personality, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schīnan ‘to shine or radiate’.
- German : occupational name for a surveyor, from Middle High German schīner ‘person who issues a document (modern German Schein) or a certificate’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from an inflected form of Schein 2.