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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Managwald (see Mangold).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Mangel ‘privation’, ‘need’, a nickname or one of surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames were made compulsory.

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