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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Mixon in Staffordshire, named from Old English mixen ‘dungheap’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a dungheap.
  • English : patronymic from a pet form of Michael.

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