Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Dutch : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German mandeln ‘to push through a mangle’.
  • South German : patronymic from Mandl.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from an agent derivative of Mandel.

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