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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a grinder (of knives, scissors, and the like), from an agent derivative of Middle High German slīfen, German schleifen ‘to grind’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Schleife in Silesia.

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