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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mouse, in appearance or timidity, from Middle High German mūs ‘mouse’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Maus ‘mouse’, one of the most common of the unflattering surnames imposed on Jews by non-Jewish government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central Europe.

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