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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Schum.
  • Chinese : (Pinyin Cen) this surname was derived from an area so named during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc).

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