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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : occupational name for a shipman or (in German) a shipbuilder, from an agent derivative of schip ‘ship’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a shovel maker or a digger, from German Schippe ‘shovel’, ‘spade’ + the agent suffix -er.

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