Family name origins & meanings
- English, German, French, and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a cloak maker or a nickname for someone who wore a cloak of a particularly conspicuous design, from Anglo-Norman, Middle High German, Old French, and Middle Dutch mantel ‘cloak’, ‘coat’ (Late Latin mantellus).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably from German Mantel or Yiddish mantl ‘coat’, which are related to 1 above.
- German : topographic name from Middle High German mantel ‘Scots pine’.