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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname or ornamental name from Yiddish sheyn ‘fine’, ‘beautiful’. Compare Schoen.
  • Americanized spelling of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schein.

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