Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a short form of any of various Germanic personal names beginning with Mag-, for example Magwart.
- Polish, Czech, and Sorbian : topographic name from Western Slavic mech ‘moss’.
- Czech (Měch) and Polish (Miech) : possibly a derivative of Czech měch ‘skin’ or Polish miech ‘bag’.
- Americanized spelling of Hungarian Mécs, probably an occupational name for a candle maker, from mécs ‘wick’.