Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname for a tall, thin person, from Middle High German schrage ‘rack’, ‘stand’, or from the same word in Middle Low German meaning ‘scrawny’.
- German : from Middle High German, Middle Low German schrage ‘slanting’, by extension used to refer to a market stall with crossed legs, hence an occupational name for a carpenter or a stallholder.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Shrage, meaning ‘candle’ in Aramaic.