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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian : nickname for a refugee from the Turks in the 15th and 16th century, from a derivative of uskočiti ‘to flee’. Slovenian territory was a refuge for Christians from Bosnia when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and from the parts of Croatia which were a war zone.
  • Dutch : variant of Schock 2.

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