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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place near Wrocɫaw (Breslau), Silesia, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a slate quarry, from Middle High German schiver ‘slate’ + stein ‘stone’ .

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