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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Mähler) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a painter, especially a painter of stained glass, from an agent derivative of German malen to paint (Middle High German mālen, Old High German mālōn ‘to mark’, from māl ‘point’, ‘mark’).

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