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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of German Schweickert.
  • possibly an altered spelling of German Zweigart, a metonymic occupational name for the owner of a tree nursery, from Middle High German zwīggart (zwīg ‘twig’ + gart ‘enclosure’).

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