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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German masch ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, a variant of marsch. Compare English Marsh.
  • German (Alemannic; Mäsch) : nickname from Middle High German mast ‘fat’, ‘stout’. Compare Mast 3.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Mash.

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