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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle Low German slīc ‘tench’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a tench or a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish.
  • German : possibly a topographic name for someone living by the Schlei river.

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