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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Mersch with the addition of Middle Low German man ‘man’.
  • Dutch : variant of Meers 2.
  • Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch me(e)rseman, maers(e)man ‘peddler’, ‘traveling merchant’.

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