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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a well-mannered and experienced person, from Middle High German schic ‘orderly’, ‘skillful’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; perhaps from a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Shimen ‘Simon’, but compare Sik.

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