Mein Family History
Mein Name Meaning
German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Maino Meino a short form of various compound names with the first element magin ‘strength might’ for example Meinhardt . Compare Main 7. German: nickname from Middle High German mein ‘mean nasty’. Scottish and English: perhaps a variant of Main or Meen. Meen is either a nickname from Middle English mene ‘inferior lowly; poor; unpleasant’ from the Middle English personal name Mene (which is of uncertain origin). Alternatively it could conceivably be a habitational name from East and West Meon (Hampshire) which take their names from the river Meon (of unexplained etymology).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022