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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Lorraine) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German mulde ‘trough’, ‘tub’ (see Moldenhauer).
  • Dutch and North German (also Mölder) : occupational name for a miller, Middle Dutch molder(e).

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