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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for a furtive or stealthy person, from an agent derivative of slijken ‘to creep about’. Compare German Schleicher.
  • Dutch : topographic name from slijk ‘mud’, ‘slime’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.

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