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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an altered form of the personal name Magnus.
  • German : from the personal name Me(i)ngoss, from Germanic magin ‘strength’, ‘might’ + gōt ‘Goth’.
  • Hungarian (Mengesz) : Magyarized spelling of the German family name.

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