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Updated June 9, 2019

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’

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