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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of a short form of a personal name formed with Germanic magin ‘strength’, ‘might’ (see Mente 1).
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a rag-and-bone collector, from Mäntel ‘overcoat’.

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