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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • possibly an altered form of German Schwar, from Sorbian šwar ‘brother-in-law’, ‘male relative’, or from Schwär, reduced form of Schwäher, from Middle High German swe(he)r of the same meaning.

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