Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Meece.
- German and Dutch : nickname from the bird name mees ‘titmouse’, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher.
- Dutch : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a basketweaver, from Middle Dutch mese ‘(fish) basket’.
- Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeus.