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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle High German meizel ‘lumberjack’, ‘wood cutter’.
  • German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a mouse, from a diminutive of Middle High German mūs, German Maus.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Mayzl, of uncertain origin.

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