German: from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name
Managwald (see Mangold). This name is also
established in Greece.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German
Mangel ‘privation’, ‘need’, a nickname or one of surnames
selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when
surnames were made compulsory.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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