Family name origins & meanings
- South German : topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or fence, from Middle High German schranc ‘gate’, ‘barrier’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from German Schrank ‘wardrobe’, ‘closet’.
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