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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Schönthal) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name from Middle High German schœn ‘beautiful’ + tal ‘valley’, or a habitational name from any of several places called Schönthal or Schöntal.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German schön ‘beautiful’ + Tal ‘valley’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with these elements (see 1 above).

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