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mehle Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and German: possibly from a short form of the personal name Amelis, Amilius, a Latinization of a Germanic compound name with initial Amal- ‘bravery’, ‘vigor’; or of the Roman family name Aemilius.
  2. German: habitational name from a place called Mehle near Elze in Lower Saxony.
  3. Slovenian: unexplained; possibly an adoption of the German name. In Slovenia this name is found mainly in the capital, Ljubljana.
  4. Norwegian (Mæ(h)le): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in western Norway named Mele, from meli, the dative case of Old Norse melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’. (Compare Mahle 2.)

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Distribution of mehle Families in the US in 1920
Number of mehle families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
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Fam. Mehle Frank Liebmann / Bianca Gläßer 11
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MEHLE Tim McLaughlin 25
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