Mehl Family History
- Mehl Name Meaning
- German: metonymic occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from Middle High German mel ‘flour’. This surname is also established in Denmark and Sweden. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, originally named with Old Norse melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 119,668 Historical Documents with Mehl on Ancestry
- 69,218 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 16,361 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,675 Military Records
- 3,941 Immigration Records
- 23,473 Member Trees
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Number of Mehl families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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