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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a glutton, from an agent derivative of Middle High German slicken ‘to gulp or swallow’.
  • North German : topographic name for someone living in a marshy area, from Schlick 2 + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.

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