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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Milstein.
  • Partly Americanized form of German Mühlstein, a nickname for a heavy person, from Middle High German mülstein ‘millstone’, or a habitational name from Mühlstein in Baden-Württemberg.

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