Last name: MESSINGER

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MESSINGER : This last name is indexed 23,583 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MESSINGER : 1: English: variant of Messenger.2: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’ German Messing from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’ named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.3: German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect) which is recorded as Masginga in 789 probably from the personal name Masco + ingen suffix of relationship.

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