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mis Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish (Mis): from a pet form of the personal name Michal (see Michael).
  2. Polish (Mis): perhaps also a nickname from mis ‘bear’.
  3. Slovenian (Miš): nickname from the vocabulary word miš ‘mouse’.
  4. Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Amijs, a derivative of Latin amicus ‘friend’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mis Families in the US in 1920
Number of mis families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 7 - Messages: 12
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Mis family from Cieplice, near Sieniawa and Lezajsk in Southeastern Poland Jeffrey Mish (Mis) 1
Mis - who lived in Sayreville,N.J janet 1
Surname of Mis JudithMcCann75 0
MIS, Agnes greglin41 1
last name Dave Miss 2
John (Jerry) Mis kalotac 0
Mise's Terrie O'Brien 0
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