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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Meece.
  • German and Dutch : nickname from the bird name mees ‘titmouse’, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher.
  • Dutch : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a basketweaver, from Middle Dutch mese ‘(fish) basket’.
  • Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeus.

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