The story
- Old Spanish · derived fromMendes
- English todayMendel
* As a south German surname, variant of Meindl, from a pet form of Mein. * As a Jewish given name, from the Yiddish personal name מענדל (Mendl), a diminutive form of מאַן (man, “man”), an affectionate form of מנחם (m'nachém), or ultimately from Old Spanish Mendes through Ladino.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.