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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Yorkshire) : occupational name for an archer, Middle English schut(te), schit(te) (from Old English scytta, a primary derivative of scēotan ‘to shoot’).
  • Americanized spelling of German Schutt.

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