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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly a variant or altered form of German Schiewe, a nickname from Middle Low German schēf ‘crooked’, ‘slanting’, ‘twisted’ or from Middle Low German scheve denoting the waste from processing flax, i.e. a nickname for a worthless person.

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