Where Does the Schug Surname Come From?

Arms linked to Schuch and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Schug is a spelling of the German surname Schuch. Read literally, Schug points to “Dweller at the sign of the shoe; one who sold shoes”.

Records show Schug as one of the forms Schuch took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Schuh and Schuck. 1,335 Americans were listed as Schug in the 2010 census. French civil records give 103 births under the name Schug from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970.

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