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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : probably a metonymic occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German mutze ‘white bread’, ‘roll’ (see Mutschler).
  • South German : nickname either for a short person, from Middle High German mutzen ‘to cut or shorten’, or for a fop or dandy, from the same word in the sense ‘to decorate or adorn’.

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