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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of South German and Swiss German Mäg(g)li, from the Germanic personal name Macco, Makko, a pet form of a compound name with the initial element māg- ‘kinsman’. Compare North German Mack.

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