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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, either the female name Machthild (see Mould) or the male name Machtolf, composed of the elements maht, meht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + wulf ‘wolf’.

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