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Question:Thanks for helping I would like to know the origin I heard it might be german or jewish.


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Mendel
Usage: Jewish, German
Extra: Statistics
Derived from the given name Mendel.

from the website, http://surnames.behindthename.com/php/br...
which further states:
MENDEL
Gender: Masculine

Usage: Yiddish

Other Scripts: ??????? (Yiddish)

Yiddish pet form of MENAHEM
which is:
MENAHEM
Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical, Jewish

Other Scripts: ??????? (Hebrew)

Means "comforter" in Hebrew. This was the name of a king of Israel who appears in the Old Testament.

and further states:
The name McConnell in Ireland is often of Scottish origin and can be derived from the ..... Mendelssohn. Usage: Jewish, German. Means "son of Mendel". ...
surnames.behindthename.com/php/browse....

One of Hitlers Nazi Butchers was called Mendel,Mendle I think.

Try this website: http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...

Mendel
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Mendl, a diminutive of Man (see Mann 3).
South German: variant of Meindl.

no name meaning and origin for Mendle

Hope this helps.

must be jewish
cause in sienfeld the mendlebaums were connected to the sienfelds, in fact trained jerry. and jerry being jewish probably tended to stick closer to jews then germans given historic events.