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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant of Dutch Mijnheer, Menheer, a nickname taken from the title of address used for a monarch, nobleman, or other personage of high status, meaning ‘my Lord’. As a surname, it probably originated as an ironic nickname.

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