Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German schiur(e), German Scheuer ‘barn’, ‘granary’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a tithe-barn. As a German name it could also be a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for receiving the tithes of agricultural produce rendered.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name from German Scheuer ‘barn’