Name meaning

LeeAnnChadderdon1

the name meaning was listed as English. My maiden name is German and would like to know what it means in German so how do I get that changed.?

LeeAnn (Muggy) Chadderdon

ValerieBrandt1

What is your maiden name? and where do you need it changed?

Dennis J Yancey

I assume you were referrring to the surname origin pages

https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=Chadderdon

what surname were you referring to?

You really have to take this info with a grain of salt . . .

1) Not all people with the exact same surname spelling necessarily have a common origin - and thus a common meaning of their surname, As an example the name SMITH has thousands of disjoint family groups - that dont have a common origin - - and not everyone with surname Smith - had ancestors who got that name because they were blacksmiths or the sort.

2) Surname Origins - are a very very huge generalization. and often times even an educated guess.

Dont think that the name origin certainly applies to your family - withotu doing yoru own research to see if things add up.

3) Name origin books often group similarly spelled family surnames together - under a common name origin explanation - even when there is no proof that the names have common origin.

4) Migrations have occured over time - realizes that an English name - could have been carried on a German country for various generations.

Rather than some Name origin book - first hand research on primary sources - rerlated to your very specific ancestors - carries hundreds of time more weight - than some possibly wild guess in some name origin book.

LeeAnnChadderdon1

As stated in my request. ..... I was talking about what the "name means" in English box. I want to know what it means in German sense that is where My family linage is from. I don't care what it means in English. The original spelling is Mugge with two dots over the u. I had my maiden name in parentheses..... "Muggy" because that is the Surname name I was looking up, also less than half of the "Muggy" names I had in the familysearch program were even mentioned. Was wondering why they all weren't listed?

Dennis J Yancey

some names - dont mean anything

like my name of YANCEY - - has no intrinsic meaning.

Dennis J Yancey

sorry I now see you refer to name Mugge/muggy.

I will take a look .

Dennis J Yancey

also FamilySearch is not comprehensive

There are many names that are not yet in the database.

its up to people like you and me - to submit them.

If you dont find them in FamilySearch Family Tree - please add them.

Dennis J Yancey

Note this information about hte German Mugge

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/M%C3%BCgge

also

https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=mugge

Dennis J Yancey

you say "many names are not in FamilySearch"

can you give some specific examples of names.

and confirm - where precisley in FamilySearch you are looking?

(FamilySeatrch Family Tree)?

FamilySearch Records?

Familysearch community?

elsewhere?

Dennis J Yancey

also see:

https://forebears.io/surnames/mugge

but again - be cautious in assuming that all MUGGE'S have a common ancestry

they probably all dont.

some may be German. Some may be English and others.