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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a byname from Middle High German muntbor ‘protector’, ‘guardian’.
  • Possibly also an altered spelling of German Mümpfer, a habitational name for someone from Mumpf, near Säckingen, Switzerland.

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