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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from the personal name Sik, a short form of Siegfried, Siegmund, or some other name formed with sieg- ‘victory’.
  • Czech : from the German adjective schick ‘orderly’, ‘useful’, ‘skillful’.
  • Jewish (from Bohemia) : from the acronym Šme Jehudim Kadoším ‘Jewish names are sacred’.

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