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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German schrenk ‘slanting’, ‘crossed’ (from schrenken ‘to put across’, ‘to lay diagonally’), possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who did wickerwork or made fences.

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