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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a noun derivative of Middle High German schudern ‘to shudder’, German Schauder ‘shudder’, hence probably a nickname for a sick-or ghoulish-looking person.

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