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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Poland) : Polish spelling of the occupational surname Mintzer ‘moneyer’.
  • English : unexplained. Perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a butcher, a cook, or a warrior, from a derivative of Middle English mince(n) ‘to mince’, ‘to cut into small pieces’.

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