The mole Surname
mole Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- English: nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face, from Middle English mole (Old English mal).
- English: from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.
- English: from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’, possibly a nickname for a small man.
- French: metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.
- Italian: variant of Mule.
- 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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