Mahl Family History
Mahl Name Meaning
North German (Mähl): topographic name for someone who lived at a mill Low German Mähl or a metonymic occupational name for a miller or mill worker. German: nickname from Middle High German Middle Low German māl ‘mark stain’. German: topographic name from Middle High German Middle Low German māl ‘boundary mark or stone’. Germanized form of Sorbian Mały ‘small little’ (see Maly ) and of its shortened form Mał which can also be from a short form of the Old Sorbian personal name Małomir based on Old Slavic malъ ‘small little’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Mahl ‘meal’ one of surnames distributed at random by Austrian clerks.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022