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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Miś) : from a pet form of the personal name Michał (see Michael).
  • Polish (Miś) : perhaps also a nickname from miś ‘bear’.
  • Slovenian (Miš) : nickname from the vocabulary word miš ‘mouse’.
  • Dutch : from a reduced form of the personal name Amijs, a derivative of Latin amicus ‘friend’.

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