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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus and Lithuania) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Meske, a pet form of Hebrew Miryam (see Mirkin).
  • Muslim : from Arabic meskīn ‘poor’, ‘humble’.

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