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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German suocher ‘searcher’, ‘investigator’, ‘pursuer’, an agent derivative of suochen ‘to seek (out)’, probably an occupational nickname for a huntsman.
  • Respelling of Jewish (from Lithuania) Zukher, a nickname from a derivative of Yiddish zukhn ‘to seek’.

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