Family name origins & meanings
- North German : from a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with magin ‘strength’, ‘might’ as the first element, for example Meinhardt.
- Dutch : topographic name from Middle Dutch mente ‘(pepper)mint’.
- Dutch : from the female personal name Mente, a short form of Clemente, feminine form of Clemens.
- Hungarian : metonymic occupational name from mente ‘short coat’.