Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a town crier, or nickname for a noisy individual, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schrī(e)n ‘to shout’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Schreier, Yiddish shrayer ‘shouter’; a nickname for a noisy person, or, possibly, an occupational name for a person whose duty it was to summon Jews to public worship.