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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin; possibly a topographic name from Middle Low German schāp ‘sheep’ + acker ‘field’, ‘pasture’, or an altered spelling of Schapbacher, reduced to Schabacher, from a place named Schapbach near Freudenstadt in Baden.

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