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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a silk merchant, from an agent derivative of German Seide ‘silk’, Middle High German sīde.
  • South German : habitational name for someone from Seyde in Saxony or Seiderau in Bavaria.

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