Musil
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Frequency: (617)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Czech; also Polish (Musił): anecdotal nickname from a lost anecdote, meaning something like ‘he had to’, from the past tense of Czech musit, Polish musieć ‘to have to’, ‘to be required to do something’.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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