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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant spelling of Schreier.
  • Dutch (de Schreyer) : occupational name for a town crier, or nickname for a noisy individual, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch schreien ‘to cry’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Schreier.

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