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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of Menz.
  • German (Silesia, Saxony, Bohemia) : from a pet form of the personal name Hermann or Clemens, under the influence of Czech pet forms such as Hermannec, leading to medieval name forms recorded as, for example, Hermenczel, and later Menczel.

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