Family name origins & meanings
- German and Austrian : from Middle High German smalz ‘tallow’, ‘grease’, ‘fat’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a chandler.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German Schmalz or Yiddish shmalts ‘animal fat’.
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