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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from German Schlosser ‘locksmith’.
  • German (also Schlösser) : topographic or occupational name for someone who worked at a castle, from Schloss with the addition of the agent or habitational suffix -er.

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