Sunday, January 31, 2010

Mende:

This is just for fun and I have no idea of its accuracy. :o))

1. Topographic name for someone who lived on the outskirts of a village or settlement, from Middle High German am ende 'at the end'.

2. Habitational name from any of various places so called in the Rhineland and Westphalia.

3. From a short for of the personal name Menath.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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