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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from Middle High German schabe ‘plane’, ‘scraper’.
  • South German : habitational name from a place so called in Bohemia.
  • Dutch : variant of Schaap.

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