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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German schrūbe, Middle Low German schrūve ‘screw’, ‘nail’, ‘peg’, ‘rivet’; German Schraube ‘screw’; probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made and sold this hardware or for a carpenter.

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