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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Maino, Meino, a short form of the various compound names with a first element magin ‘strength’, ‘might’, for example Meinhardt.
  • German : from a byname from Middle High German mein ‘mean’, ‘nasty’.
  • Scottish : variant of Main.

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