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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German schüne ‘barn’ + man ‘man’; either a topographic name for someone who lived near a tithe-barn, or a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for receiving the tithes of agricultural produce. Compare Scheuer.

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