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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Franconia) : from Middle High German schelle-horn ‘horn’, a nickname for a hunter or a nightwatchman who blew a horn, or perhaps for someone with a penetrating voice like a horn.
  • German (Franconia) : topographic or habitational name from either of two places, in Schleswig and on Rügen Island, named Schellhorn, the second element of which is Middle High German horn, ‘corner’, ‘nook’.

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