When Ann Mee was christened on 21 March 1824, in Millbrook, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Mee, was 27 and her mother, Mary Ann, was 27.
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English (mainly East Midlands): occupational name from Middle English mee, meie, mie (Old French mege, mie) ‘physician’. Compare the synonymous Mayer and Myer .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘honorable’. This name was also adopted for various other Irish names, e.g. Meehan , and also in Ulster for McNamee .
French (Mée): habitational name from any of the places called (Le) Mée in Mayenne, Eure-et-Loir, and Seine-et-Marne, derived from Old French me(i)s ‘farmstead’ (from Latin mansus). This surname is rare in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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