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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Russian melnik ‘miller’ (from melit ‘to grind’).
  • Polish : habitational name for someone from a place called Mielnik.
  • Polish : occupational name from mielnik ‘miller’.

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