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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a glutton, from a derivative of Middle High German slicken ‘to gulp or swallow’.
  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area, from Middle Low German slik ‘slime’, ‘bog’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin, probably an unflattering name from German Schlick ‘slime’, ‘mud’, imposed by a non-Jewish government official.

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