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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a clerk, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schrīben ‘to write’ (via Old High German from Latin scribere).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Schreiber, Yiddish shrayber ‘writer’, adopted as a translation of Hebrew Soffer ‘scribe’.

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