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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Schiffmann) : occupational name for a shipman (see Schiffer).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Schiff ‘ship’ + Mann ‘man’, an ornamental name or possibly denoting someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a ship.

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