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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a house name meaning ‘moonshine’, or a nickname for someone who was bald, from the same word, Middle High German mōne, mān(d)e + schein.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from the German word Mondschein ‘moonshine’ (see 1).

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