Frequency: (101)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: probably a topographic name from a place called Schiefenbusch or Schiefendorf, denoting an irregular plot or field (German schief, Low German scheef ‘slanted’, ‘bent’, ‘crooked’).
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