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mole Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mole (the burrowing mammal), Middle English mol(le) (from Dutch or Low German mol), for example in having poor eyesight.
  2. English: nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face, from Middle English mole (Old English mal).
  3. English: from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.
  4. English: from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’, possibly a nickname for a small man.
  5. French: metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.
  6. Italian: variant of Mule.
  7. Slovenian: probably a nickname for a extremely religious man, from mole ‘zealot’, a derivative of moliti ‘to pray’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mole Families in the US in 1920
Number of mole families
 29-55
 10-28
 1-9
 0
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