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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Schaumburg in Lower Saxony or from Schömberg in Württemberg.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German schūm ‘slag’, ‘cinder’ + berc ‘mountain’.

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