Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German
schīn, German Schein ‘a shining’, ‘brightness’, hence
a German nickname for someone with a radiant personality or possibly
for someone living in a sunny location, or a Jewish ornamental name.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schoen 2, from
Yiddish sheyn, central Yiddish shayn.
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