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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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