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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German mittag ‘midday’, ‘south’, hence a nickname for someone who lived or held property which lay to the south of a main settlement.
  • German : Saxony and Lausitz): from Mittak, a Sorbian pet form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew).

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