Last name: SCHWARZ

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SCHWARZ : This last name is indexed 500,492 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SCHWARZ : 1: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schwartz. This surname is also found in Slovakia Czechia Poland Croatia and Slovenia where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see 2 below) and where it was often applied as a translation into German of Slavic cognates like Czech and Slovak Černý (see Cerny 1) Slovenian Černe (see Cerne 1). It is also found in some western European countries notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and the Netherlands.2: Germanized form of Czech Slovak Slovenian and Croatian Švarc (see Swartz 2) and Polish Szwarc surnames of German origin (see above).

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