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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : Limburg variant of Maas.
  • Dutch : nickname, or metonymic occupational name for a cook, from Middle Dutch moes ‘food’, ‘porridge’, ‘stewed vegetables’.
  • Dutch : possibly a habitational name from Moerzeke in East Flanders, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the Maas river.

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