https://www.4crests.com/schwab-coat-of-arms.html The surname of SCHWAB was a German and Ashkenazic Jewish regional name for someone from Swabia. The name was derived from the German word SCHWABEN, so called from a Germanic tribe recorded from the Ist century BC in the Latin form SUEBI or SUEVI. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schwab German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from Swabia (German Schwaben), from Middle High German Swap, German Schwabe ‘Swabian’. The region takes its name from a Germanic tribe recorded from the 1st century bc in the Latin form Suebi or Suevi, of uncertain origin; it was an independent duchy from the 10th century until 1313, when the territory was broken up.