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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Mauthé) : nickname from Old French malté, mauté ‘malice’ (derived from mal, mau ‘bad’).
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a toll collector, from Middle High German mūte ‘customs’, ‘duty’, ‘toll’.

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