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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Of German origin : probably an Americanized spelling of Meins.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Mine (see Mindel) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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