Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Meise.
- German : variant of Meiss.
- Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Remeis, from the Latin personal name Remigius (see Remy), which was born by two early medieval bishops in Normandy.
- Dutch : from a reduced form of the personal name Meinso, a variant of Mein.
- Dutch : possibly a late variant of Mys (see Mis), or a metronymic from the personal name Clemeinse, Clementia, from the Latin female personal name Clementia (meaning ‘mercy’) or from a derivative of clemens ‘merciful’.