Family name origins & meanings
- German : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of glue or seller of bird lime, from Middle High German slīn, a variant of slīm (see Schleimer).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish shlayn ‘tench’ (German Schleie). This is one of the many Ashkenazic ornamental names taken from words denoting fishes.