meaning of "Schwarzenegger": What pdq writes is not the only possibility. The name also could be a spelling variant of the more common family name Schwarzenecker and that would be most likely a family name that started as a place name: (1) a person from Schwarzeneck (some places in Germany and Austria have that name) or (2) a person from a schwarzen Eck (black corner); in this case "schwarz" would most likely refer to a wood from coniferous trees (like in Schwarzwald/black forest) and the person would come from a corner in/at a coniferous forest. Mind, that's only another idea, pdq might still be right. Wolfgang
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