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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a jester or a nickname for a facetious person, from Middle High German scherz, German Scherz ‘amusement’, ‘game’, ‘jest’.

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