Family name origins & meanings
- South German : from Middle High German model ‘measure’, ‘size’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of weights and measures.
- German : possibly a habitational name from the Slavic place name Modlau.
- Polish : from model ‘model’, ‘fashion’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Modl, a pet form of Mordecai.