The messinger Surname
messinger Name Meaning and History
- English: variant spelling of Messenger.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (khalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
- German: habitational name from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Messinger Family | Sindee Collins | 1 |
| Eliza Messinger/Messenger, married to Salisbury Orswell |
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| Messingers: Sumner M. Barnum B. | Nina | 2 |
| Charles Messinger (son of Eli Messinger & Martha Barrett) | Katie | 4 |
| MESSINGER Gay Nell 1920-1978 |
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| George Messinger 1797 |
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| Johnathan Messinger | Judie Bricker | 2 |
| Mössingers in Baden-Wuerrtemberg Messingers in Lebanon, PA | Tim Messinger | 27 |
| Messinger's of Bluffton, Ohio | Cindy Messinger | 2 |
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