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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Shortened form of Scottish or Irish McMickle.
  • Scottish and northern English : nickname for a big man, from Older Scots and northern Middle English meikle, mekill ‘great’, ‘large’ (Old Norse mikill).
  • Altered spelling of German Mickel.

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