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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Zierik, composed of the Germanic elements sigi ‘victory’ + rīk ‘rule’, ‘governance’, or from a personal name composed of sigi + harja ‘army’.

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