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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, Middle Low German moldenhauer, from molde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’, ‘tub’ (from Latin mulctra ‘milking tub’) + an agent derivative of hauen ‘hew’; ‘carve’.

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