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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle High German selig ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’, or a variant of Salge 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Zelik ‘fortunate’, ‘blessed’.

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