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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German schūr ‘shower of rain’ or ‘bad storm’, in any of several possible senses. It may be a nickname for an easily excitable person, an occupational name for the warden of a park or piece of common land (from the same word in the sense ‘protection’; compare Schuetz), or a nickname from the same word in the sense ‘clever’.
  • German (Schür) : see Scheuer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Shor.

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