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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone with a deformed mouth, or for someone who made excessive use of the mouth in eating, drinking, or talking, from Middle High German mūl ‘mouth’.
  • German : possibly a nickname from Middle High German mūl ‘mule’.
  • English : from Mall, a medieval pet form of the female personal name Mary (see Marie 1).

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