- 285
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Schlief
Meaning & Origins
North German: from Middle Low German slef ‘wooden spoon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a spoon maker. The word also had a figurative sense of ‘ruffian’, so it could be a nickname from this.
| 59,793rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Schlosser, Schlegel, Schlueter, Schlesinger, Schleicher, Schley, Schlenker, Schlabach, Schloss, Schlichting
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 285
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Minnesota
- has the most people named Schlief per capita
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