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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : nickname for a large (tall or fat) person, from Middle English muche ‘great’, a shortened form (probably a back-formation, as if from a diminutive with the Anglo-Norman French suffix -el) of muchel, Old English mycel ‘great’, ‘large’.

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