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View Surname: Schreier


SCHREIER
SOURCE: Occupation
USAGE: German, Jewish
Meaning & History
German and Yiddish word that means "screamer" or "shrieker" or "crier", perhaps an occupational name for a town crier. There are two main branches of people with the name: Lutherans from Bavaria, and Ashkenazi Jews from the area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire formerly known as Galicia, which is today in southwestern Ukraine.
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