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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of glue or seller of bird lime, from Middle High German slīn, a variant of slīm (see Schleimer).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish shlayn ‘tench’ (German Schleie). This is one of the many Ashkenazic ornamental names taken from words denoting fishes.

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