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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a peddler or a nickname for someone who always had something to sell, from Middle High German schotte ‘peddler’.
  • German (Schött) : metonymic occupational name for a tax collector, from Middle Low German schot ‘tax’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from either German Schotte ‘Scotsman’ or German Schote ‘pod’.

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