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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone who lived by a peat-bog, Middle High German mies; or a habitational name from Mies, named with the same word.
  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Bartholomeus (see Bartholomew).
  • Dutch (van der Mies) : variant of Meers 2.

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