Last name origins & meanings:
- German: nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mouse, in
appearance or timidity, from Middle High German mūs ‘mouse’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Maus ‘mouse’, one of
the most common of the unflattering surnames imposed on Jews by
non-Jewish government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central
Europe.
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