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The mehl Surname

mehl Name Meaning and History

  1. German: metonymic occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from Middle High German mel ‘flour’. This surname is also established in Denmark and Sweden.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, originally named with Old Norse melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’.

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Distribution of mehl Families in the US in 1920
Number of mehl families
 32-62
 11-31
 1-10
 0
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