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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from the medieval personal name Mummo. This is probably a short form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements mund ‘protection’ + a second element beginning with m-, such as man ‘man’ or muot ‘courage’.
  • North German : nickname for a grumpy individual, from mummen ‘to mumble’.

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