Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname from Middle High German schric ‘fright’.
- Dutch : either a nickname, cognate with 1, from a noun derivative of Middle Dutch schricken ‘to frighten’, or a reduced form of van Schrieck, a habitational name from Schriek in the Belgian province of Antwerp or various minor places so named (from a word meaning ‘nook’, ‘corner’, ‘bend’).