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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle High German sloz ‘lock’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Schloss ‘castle’ (originally the same word as in 1), a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a castle or was employed at one. The Jewish name is generally ornamental.

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