Submitted Surnames of Length 6

Ryzeck Polish

Rzayev Azerbaijani
Means "son of Rza".

Rzepka Polish
from rzepka, diminutive of rzepa ‘turnip’, either a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a peasant who grew root vegetables.

Rzonca Polish
Nickname from Polish dialect rzonca, standard Polish rzodca ‘land steward’.

Rzucek Polish

Saabir Somali

Saadat Persian
Means "happiness" in Persian, ultimately from Arabic سعادة (sa'adah).

Saadiq Pakistani
Rare variant of Sadiq.

Saarik Estonian
Saarik is an Estonian surname meaning "ash tree stand".

Saarma Estonian
Saarma is an Estonian surname derived from "saarmas", meaning "otter".

Sabado Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish sábado meaning “Sabbath, Saturday”.

Sabagh Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic صباغ (see Sabbagh).

Sabato Italian
From sabato "Saturday".

Saberi Persian
From the given name Saber.

Sabino Italian
From the given name Sabino

Sablan Spanish
Of Savoy.

Sabnis Hindi

Sachan Indian, Hindi
Derived from Sanskrit सचान (sácāna) meaning "kind, friendly".

Sachse German
Variant of Sachs.

Sadaki Japanese

Saddam Arabic
Derived from the given name Saddam.

Sadiku Albanian, Kosovar

Sadile English
1 English (mostly Lancashire): probably a variant of Sale .... [more]

Sadiwa Tagalog
From Tagalog sariwa meaning "fresh, crisp, new" in Tagalog.

Saeeda Iranian

Saeedi Persian, Urdu
From the given name Saeed.

Saehak Thai
From the Chinese surname Hao.

Saekhu Thai
From the Chinese surname Qiu.

Saelao Thai
Form of Liu used by Thais of Chinese descent, formed with Thai แซ่ (sae) denoting Chinese family names.

Saelau Thai
Form of Liu used by Chinese Thais (based on the Cantonese romanization of the name).

Saelee Thai
Alternate transcription of Saeli.

Saelim Thai
Form of Lin used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Saelin Thai
From the Chinese surname Lin.

Saetae Thai
Form of Zheng used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Saetan Thai
Form of Chen used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Sæter Norwegian
Variant of Sæther.

Saetia Thai
Form of Zhang (via the Teochew romanization) used by Thais of Chinese descent, formed with Thai แซ่ (sae) denoting Chinese family names.

Saetta Italian
Means "lightning" in Italian.

Safaei Persian
From the given name Safa.

Safara Nigerian

Safari Persian
From the given name Safar.

Safdar Urdu
Derived from the given name Safdar.

Safeya Muslim
• Safeya is derived from the SAD-F-A root which is used in many places in the Quran, This name derives from the Arabic “Ṣafi”, meaning “pure, confidante, best friend”. Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish woman captured from the Banu Nadir tribe at age 17, who became Muhammad's wife... [more]

Šafran Croatian
Means "crocus, saffron".

Safran Jewish

Safrit English

Safwan Arabic
Derived from the given name Safwan.

Safwat Arabic
Derived from the given name Safwat.

Sagala Batak

Sagami Japanese
Variant of Sakami.

Sagara Japanese
From Japanese 相 (saga) meaning "nature, custom, fate, destiny" and 良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" or 楽 (ra) meaning "comfort, ease".

Sagawa Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Saggio Italian

Sagisu Japanese

Sağlam Turkish
Means "firm, hard, strong" in Turkish.

Saguid Tagalog
From Tagalog sagid meaning "slight touch in passing".

Sahabi Iranian
Possibly from Arabic صَحَابِيّ‎ (ṣaḥābiyy) meaning "companion", from the verb صَحِبَ‎ (ṣaḥiba) "to accompany, to be one's companion".

Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "aid; help" or 佐 (Sa), a clipping of 佐野 (Sano), a former manor in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke in present-day Tochigi, Japan, and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow; plain; field"... [more]

Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 左 (sa), a clipping of 左衛門尉 (saemon-no-jō) meaning "judge of senior gate guards" and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow; plain; field".

Sahara Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 砂原 (see Sunahara).

Saharu Japanese

Sahata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶畑 (see Chabata 2).

Sahlén Swedish
Variant of Sahlin.

Sahler Jewish, German

Sahlin Swedish
Swedish sal "hall, large room" (possibly from a place name containing this element) combined with the common surname suffix -in.

Sahota Indian (Sikh)
A sikh surname meaning ‘hare’, derived from the name of a Jat clan.

Sahota Indian, Punjabi
Derived from Punjabi ਸਹਿਆ (sahia) meaning "hare".

Sahryu Japanese

Saikia Indian, Assamese
From a military title used during the Ahom Kingdom that indicated an official who commanded 100 soldiers. The title itself is derived from Assamese শ (xo) meaning "hundred".

Sailer English
Variant spelling of Saylor.

Sailor English
Variant of Saylor.

Säinas Estonian
Säinas is an Estonian surname meaning "ide/orfe" (a freshwater species of fish; genus Leuciscus).

Sainei Korean (Japanized, Rare)
From Japanese 載寧 (Sainei), the Japanese reading of Korean Hanja 載寧 (Chaeryŏng/Jaeyeong) meaning "Chaeryŏng", a clan or a county in province of South Hwanghae in North Korea where the clan originated.

Saipov Uzbek, Kyrgyz
From a given name derived from Arabic صائب (sayib) meaning "just, true, right".

Saique Filipino

Saique Filipino
Saique means ‘sovereign’ or ‘supreme ruler’

Saisho Japanese

Saitoh Japanese

Sajjad Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Sajjad.

Sakabe Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sakada Japanese

Sakade Japanese

Sakagi Japanese
Variant of Sakaki.

Sakaki Japanese

Sakami Japanese
Salad means "slope, hill" and mi means "view".

Sakane Japanese
From the Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) "slope" or 酒 (saka or sake) "alcohol" and 根 (ne) "root."

Sakano Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Sakata Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakate Japanese

Sakato Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakatō).

Sakatō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakagashira).

Sakaue Japanese

Sakawa Japanese

Sakaya Japanese

Sakemi Japanese

Sakhno Ukrainian
Sakhno could be a derivative of the Russian surname Sakhalinsky (Сахалинский), the Polish surname Saczkowski, the Serbian surname Šakota (Схакота), or the German surnames Sachs and/or Sackhoff... [more]

Sakino Japanese
Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Sakoda Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 迫 (sako) meaning "a small valley on the mountain side" and 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".

Sakong Korean

Šakota Serbian
From šaka, meaning "hand"

Sakota Japanese
From Japanese 迫 (sako) meaning "mountainside valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakoui Iranian
meaning gold merchant

Sakuda Japanese

Sakuma Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" combined with 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Sakura Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 倉 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse".

Sakuta Japanese

Salaeh Thai (Muslim)
Alternate transcription of Salae.

Salama Arabic
Derived from the given name Salama.

Salaün Breton, French
Form of the given name Solomon.

Saleem Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Salim.

Salehi Persian
Derived from the given name Saleh.

Salemi Italian, Sicilian
habitational name from a place so called in Trapani.

Salene English

Saliba Arabic, Maltese
Means "crucifix, cross" in Arabic, a reference to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Christianity... [more]

Salimi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Salim.

Salinš Latvian
Topographic name for someone living on an island, from a derivative of Latvian sala meaning ‘island’.

Sallam Arabic
Derived from the given name Salam.

Sallas Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Greek
Either a variant of Salas or Sala, or else a nickname from Arabic, Turkish, or Persian salli meaning "broad, wide, large, tall".

Salles English

Sallis English
A name for someone who lives where sallows grow - sallows being a type of willow, from the Middle English 'salwe'.

Sallow English (Rare)
Sallow comes from the medieval word for willow tree. It is a location surname.

Salman Arabic, Urdu, Turkish
From the given name Salman.

Salter English
Occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salt 'salt' + the agent suffix -er.

Saludo Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish meaning "to greet".

Salvat Catalan, Occitan
Catalan and Occitan cognate of Savage. Derived from salvatge.

Salvín Spanish

Salzer German
For someone who worked with salt from Middle High German salz "salt" (from Latin sal).

Samadi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Samad.

Samaha Arabic
Derived from Arabic سَمْح (samḥ) meaning "magnanimous, generous".

Samake Western African

Samara Greek
Variant of Samaras.

Sameer Arabic, Dhivehi, Urdu
From the given name Samir 1.

Sameth Jewish, German, Yiddish
Variation of Samet.

Samiri Albanian

Samiri Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Samir 1. It also means "samaritan" in Arabic.

Sammal Estonian
Sammal is an Estonian surname meaning "moss".

Sammel Estonian
Sammel is an Estonian surname meaning "moss".

Sammul Estonian
Sammul is an Estonian surname meaning "pace" and "step".

Samper Catalan
Habitational name from any of the places in Catalonia called Sant Pere, generally as the result of the dedication of a local church or shrine to St. Peter (Sant Pere).

Sample English, Scottish

Samson Filipino
From Min Nan 三孫 (sam-sun) or 三孙 (sam-sun) meaning "third grandchild".

Sámuel Hungarian
From the given name Sámuel.

Samune Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 実 (sane) meaning "fruit seed" and 宗 (mune) meaning "principle; aim; purpose; meaning; gist", referring to a land with many fruits or with rich fertility.... [more]

Samura Japanese
Sa means "support, assist" and mura "village, hamlet" or "town".

Samzun French

Sanara Indonesian

Sanata Japanese

Sancak Turkish
Means "flag, banner, emblem" in Turkish.

Sancti Celtic (Latinized, Archaic)
Sancti or Santi is a Italian surname in the north of Italy, Cisalpine Gaul or Galia Citerior also known as Galia Togata. It's a last name belonging to ancient Celtic tribes.

Sancto Medieval Italian (Latinized, Modern)
It comes from the Latin and it means hallowed or holiness.

Sandén Swedish
Combination of Swedish sand "sand" and the common surname suffix -én.

Sandeo Italian

Sandhu Indian, Punjabi
From Sindhu, the Sanskrit name for the Indus River.

Sandia Spanish (Latin American)

Sandra Central African

Sandri Romansh
Italianized form of Tschander.

Saneto Japanese
From 實 (sane, jitsu, mino.ru, mi.chiru, mi, mame, makoto) meaning "fruit, seed, ripen, fulfill, truth, sincerity" and 藤 (to, fuji) meaning "wisteria".

Sangma Garo
The clan name of a folklore writer from Northeast India.

Sanjay Hindi

Sanjoh Japanese

Sanjou Japanese
From Japanese 三 (san) meaning "three" and 條 or 条 (jou) meaning "paragraph".

Sankey English, Irish
Habitational name from a place in Lancashire, which derived from the name of an ancient British river, perhaps meaning "sacred, holy." ... [more]

Sanneh Western African

Sanogo Mossi
Not available yet.

Sanogo Western African

Sansuk Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai แสนสุข (see Saensuk).

Santas Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Possibly a nickame for someone born on All Saint's Day.

Santee English
A topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.

Santin Istriot

Santin Venetian
Venetian diminutive of Santo.

Santis Medieval Italian (Latinized, Archaic)
It means holliness, hallowed, saintly, sainted, sanctity. It is a surname that corresponds with Italian Celts families (Italo-Celtic family groups), more precisely in Piemonte or Piedmont (north of Italy).

Santos m Italian
Santo

Santra Indian

Sanusi Nigerian

Sanyal Bengali
Habitational name from the village of Senlal (or Sen Lal) in present-day Bangladesh.

Sanzio Italian
Meaning: Holy or Blessed.

Sapien French

Sapiro Jewish
Varient of Shapiro.

Šaraba Serbian

Sarabi Iranian

Sarada Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 皿 (sara), an assigned character to 更 (sara) meaning "new; unused" and 田 (da), the joining form of 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, cultivated field", referring to unused farmland.

Sarado Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Saragi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蛇穴 (see Jaana).

Sarago Italian
From Italian sarago "fish".

Sarasa Japanese (Rare)
Means "chintz" in Japanese.

Sarata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 皿田 (see Sarada).

Sarcos Spanish (Latin American)
Meaning unknown.

Sardar Indian, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu
From a title meaning "chief, leader", derived from Persian سر (sar) meaning "head, authority" and the suffix دار (dar) meaning "possessor".

Sarder Bengali
Alternate transcription of Bengali সরদার (see Sardar).

Sareen Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Alternate transcription of Hindi सरीन or Punjabi Gurmukhi ਸਰੀਨ (see Sarin).

Sargis Armenian
From the given name Sargis.

Sarkar Indian, Bengali, Assamese
From the Persian title سرکار (sarkar) meaning "lord, supervisor, overseer".

Sarker Bengali
Alternate transcription of Sarkar.

Sarkis Arabic, Armenian (Expatriate)
From the given name Sarkis.

Sarley English

Sarnow Polabian (Germanized), German
From the village of Sarnow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Surname of the mayor of Stralsund Karsten Sarnow.

Sarōdo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 佐良土 (Sarōdo) meaning "Sarōdo", a former village in the district of Nasu in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke.

Sarodo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Sarott Romansh

Sarpei Akan
Meaning unknown.

Sarrià Catalan
Catalan habitational name from any of the places named Sarrià or Sàrria, in Catalonia.

Sarris Greek
Derived from Turkish sari meaning "blond, fair-haired".

Saruta Japanese
From Japanese 猿 (saru) meaning "monkey" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sarver English, Jewish
English and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) occupational name from Old French serveur (an agent derivative of server ‘to serve’), Yiddish sarver ‘servant’.

Sarwar Urdu, Bengali
From the Persian title سرور (sarvar) meaning "lord, master".

Sasago Japanese

Sasako Japanese
Sasa means "bamboo grass" and no means "child, first sign of the Chinese zodiac: the rat".

Sasala Rukai

Sasame Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 左 (sa) meaning "left", -s-, used to represent epenthesis between 2 vowels or a possession marker, and 雨 (ame) meaning "rain; rainfall".

Sasano Japanese
From 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plains, wilderness".

Şaşmaz Turkish
Means "infallible" in Turkish.

Sasori Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 佐曽利 with 佐 (sa) meaning "assistant, help," 曽 (so, sou, zou, katsu, katsute, sunawachi) meaning "before, ever, formerly, never, once" and 利 (ri, ki.ku) meaning "advantage, benefit, profit."

Sasser English

Sassow Polish

Sastri Kannada, Telugu
Variant of Shastri.

Sastry Telugu
Variant of Shastri.

Satake Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo".

Sather Norwegian (Americanized)
Americanized form of Sæther.

Satoda Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice field"

Satoki Japanese
Sato means "village, city" and ki means "wood, tree".

Satomi Japanese
Sato means "village" and mi means "mindset, view, outlook".... [more]

Satoya Japanese
Sato means "village" and ya means "valley".

Sattar Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Persian
Derived from the given name Sattar.

Satten Latvian, Russian, Jewish
Americanized version of Sattenstein or Schattenstein

Saturn Russian

Sauble English

Saudji Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 佐氏 (see Sauji).

Saukko Finnish
Means "otter" in Finnish.

Šaulis Lithuanian
Occupational name from Lithuanian šaulys meaning "rifleman".

Saulog Filipino

Savant French
Nickname from savant ‘learned’, a nickname for a university graduate or a particularly knowledgeable person.

Savard French
Either from Old French savart meaning "wasteland" or the Germanic elements sab of uncertain meaning and hard meaning "brave, hardy".

Savary English
Variant of Savery

Savath Lao
Means "sincere, open, beautiful" in Lao.

Savaya African

Savela Finnish
Derived from Finnish savi "clay". Savela is also a place in Helsinki and Jyväskylä.

Savell English
English variant of Saville.

Savery English
Originally from the given name of Germanic origin, Savaric

Savile English
Variant of Saville.

Savini Italian

Savino Italian
From the given name Savino.

Savoia Italian (Archaic)
A Italian royal court name.

Savoie French

Savoir French

Savory English
Variant of Savery

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh, wetlands, swamp" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section" or 辺 (be) meaning "area, place, vicinity".

Sawada Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sawade German
German form of Zawada.

Sawaki Japanese

Sawano Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and no means "field, plain, wilderness".

Sawant Indian, Marathi
Derived from Sanskrit समन्त (samanta) meaning "universal, complete, entire".

Sawara Japanese (Rare)
Sawara (椹) is a type of cypress native to Japan

Sawara Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 佐原 (see Sahara).

Saward English

Sawata Japanese

Sawdey English (American)
Variant of Sawdy.

Saxena Indian, Hindi
Traditionally believed to be derived from Sanskrit सखिसेना (sakhisena) meaning "friend of the army", from सखा (sakha) meaning "friend, companion" and सेना (sena) meaning "army"... [more]

Saxton English
Habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe "Saxons" and tūn "enclosure, settlement".

Sayago Leonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Sayagu.

Sayagu Leonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous comarca.

Sayegh Arabic
Means "goldsmith" in Arabic.

Sayers English
Form of Sayer.

Saylee Thai
Alternate transcription of Saeli.

Sayles Scottish

Sayson Filipino
From Hokkien 世孫 (sì sun) meaning "direct lineal descendant" or 西孫 (sai sun) meaning "western grandchild".

Saytou Japanese (Russified)
Alternate transcription of Saitou more commonly used by ethnic Japanese living in parts of the former Soviet Union and Sakhalin Japanese residing on Sakhalin Island in Russia.

Sayyed Indian (Muslim)
Indian form of Sayyid.

Sayyid Swahili, Muslim
From the Arabic honourific title سَيِّد (sayyid) which means "master, lord, prince, mister".

Sayyid Arabic
From an honorific title meaning "master, lord" in Arabic, used as a surname by descendants of the prophet Muhammad.

Sazaki Japanese
Sazaki means "wren".

Scaggs English
Variant of Skaggs both of English origin and unknown meaning. Famous bearer is singer Boz Scaggs (1944-) of the Steve Miller Band and the band Toto.

Scaife English

Scales English
Name for a person who lives in a shed.

Scalia Italian
Habitational name derived from Scalea in the province of Cosenza, deriving ultimately from medieval Greek skaleia meaning "hoeing".

Scanes Scottish

Scarfe English
Variant of Scarff.

Scarff English
Nickname from Old Norse skarfr meaning "cormorant".

Scarla Italian (?)

Scarry Irish
Shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scurra, meaning ‘descendant of Scurra’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

Šćekić Montenegrin, Serbian

Scemla Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Chemla.

Scerri Maltese
Meaning disputed; it could be derived from Sicilian sciarra meaning "fight, brawl", Arabic شَرّ (šarr) meaning "evil, cruel", or a word meaning "anger".

Schaad German, Dutch
Variant of Schade.

Schaaf German
Metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle High German schāf ‘sheep’. In some cases it may have been a nickname for someone thought to resemble a sheep, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a sheep... [more]

Schaal German, Dutch, French, Jewish
Either a nickname for a braggart or a market crier, (derived from Middle High German schal meaning "noise, bragging"), an occupational name for someone who made dishes for scales and vessels for drinking, (from Middle Low German and Dutch schale "dish"), a habitational name from Schaala in Thuringia or the Schaalsee lake near Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, or a topographic name for someone living on marshy land, (from Dutch schald "shallow")... [more]

Schaap Dutch
Means "sheep" in Dutch, an occupational name for a shepherd. Alternatively, it could be a nickname for someone who looked or behaved like a sheep in some way, or who lived by a sign depicting a sheep.

Schade German, Dutch
From schade "damage, injury", a derivative of schaden "to do damage, harm, hurt", generally a nickname for a thug or clumsy person, or, more particularly, a robber knight, who raided others’ lands.

Schaef German

Schaff German
Name given to sheepherders, accounding to personal family history.

Schalk German, Dutch
From Old High German scalc "servant, retainer, jester", which eventually evolved to mean "joker, rogue, knave". Could be an occupational name for an attendant or jester, a nickname for someone mischievous, or derived from a given name containing scalc as an element, such as Godschalk.

Schall German
Nickname for a braggart or for a market crier from Middle High German schal "noise" "bragging".

Schatz German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) metonymic occupational name for a treasurer, from German Schatz ‘treasure’, Middle High German scha(t)z. It may also have been a nickname for a rich man (or ironically for a miser), or else for a well-liked person or a ladies’ favorite, from the use of the vocabulary word as a term of endearment... [more]

Schaus German, Luxembourgish
A nickname for a simpleton, from schaus, a word in Rhenish Franconian and Lower Rhine dialects of German.

Scheid German, Jewish
Either a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary (between two valleys etc.) or crossroads Middle High German scheide, a habitational name from any of various places called Scheidt Scheiden... [more]

Schein German, Jewish
from Middle High German schīn German schein "shining brightness" hence a nickname for someone with either a radiant personality or possibly for someone living in a sunny location or a Jewish artificial name.

Schell German
Means "noisy" or "loud" from the German word "schel"

Schena Italian

Scherb German, Jewish

Schere German

Scherf German
from Middle High German and Middle Low German scherf a coin worth half a penny possibly applied as a nickname for a poor person.