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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German silber ‘silver’ + stein ‘stone’; a habitational name from a place so named in Bavaria, or a topographic name.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Silber ‘silver’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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