Frequency: (696)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: nickname for a tall, thin person, from Middle High German schrage ‘rack’, ‘stand’, or from the same word in Middle Low German meaning ‘scrawny’.
2. German: from Middle High German, Middle Low German schrage ‘slanting’, by extension used to refer to a market stall with crossed legs, hence an occupational name for a carpenter or a stallholder.
3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Shrage, meaning ‘candle’ in Aramaic.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
