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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Siegfried.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a soap maker, from an agent derivative of German Seife, Yiddish zeyf ‘soap’.

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