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First name origin & meaning:

Middle English: Repairman

First name variations: Mel, Mendelssohn, Menachem, Menahem, Mendal, Mendell, Mendie, Mendy, Mendyl

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Mendl, a diminutive of Man (see Mann 3).
  2. South German: variant of Meindl.