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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from an agent derivative of Middle High German, German scherben ‘to cut into small pieces’, ‘to shave off’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, tailor, or the like.

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