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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Madl in Bavaria, or a topographic name from Middle High German māt ‘meadow’, ‘grassland’.
  • Czech and Hungarian (Mádl) : from German Madel or Mädel ‘girl’, nickname for someone thought to resemble a young girl.

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