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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of German Meissler, an occupational nickname for someone who used a chisel in his work, from Middle High German meizel ‘chisel’ + the agent suffix -er, or a nickname for a philanderer, from the same word in the sense ‘penis’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meisel.

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