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Schink

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern German : nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, from Middle High German schinke ‘thigh’, ‘leg’. Compare Schenkel.
  • Dutch : variant of Schenk 1.

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