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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from shevchuk ‘son (or assistant) of the shoemaker’, from shevts ‘shoemaker’ + the diminutive or patronymic suffix -(ch)uk.

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