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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Northumberland) : nickname for a big man, from Middle English muchel ‘big’ (Old English mycel). Compare Mickle.
  • German (Mückle; South German Muckle) : from a diminutive of Muck ‘gnat’.

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