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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English moul, an older form of mule ‘mule’, which was altered under Norman French influence (see Mule). This would have been a nickname for a stubborn person or a metonymic occupational name for a driver of pack animals.

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