Last name: SCHIFF
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SCHIFF : This last name is indexed 25,009 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SCHIFF : 1: German: from Middle High German schif ‘ship’ applied as a metonymic occupational name for a mariner or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a ship.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial or habitational name (see 1 above) from German Schiff ‘ship’.
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