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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Mead 1 + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
  • English : occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead, Middle English med(i)er (see Mead 2).

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