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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Americanized form of Schwarzfeger, probably a nickname for a black-haired armorer or for a ruffian or for a vagrant, from Middle High German swarz ‘black’ + feger ‘armorer’, ‘tramp’ .

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