The moldenhauer Surname
moldenhauer Name Meaning and History
North German: occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, Middle
Low German moldenhauer, from molde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’,
‘tub’ (from Latin mulctra ‘milking tub’) + an agent derivative
of hauen ‘hew’; ‘carve’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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