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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (mostly Schömer; Bavarian) : nickname for an offensive person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schemen ‘to insult’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Hebrew shomer ‘watchman’.

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