Mauthe
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Frequency: (214)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. French (Mauthé): nickname from Old French malté, mauté ‘malice’ (derived from mal, mau ‘bad’).
2. German: metonymic occupational name for a toll collector, from Middle High German mūte ‘customs’, ‘duty’, ‘toll’.
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