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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, German, French, and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a cloak maker or a nickname for someone who wore a cloak of a particularly conspicuous design, from Anglo-Norman, Middle High German, Old French, and Middle Dutch mantel ‘cloak’, ‘coat’ (Late Latin mantellus).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably from German Mantel or Yiddish mantl ‘coat’, which are related to 1 above.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German mantel ‘Scots pine’.

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