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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Spanish : from mosco ‘mosquito’, ‘gnat’, hence a nickname for a small, annoying, or persistent person.
  • Americanized form of Greek Moschos, Moskos, from the personal name Moskhos, Moskos ‘sweet-smelling’, ‘fragrant’, from moskhos ‘musk’, from Persian moshk ‘musk’. This name is also found in compounds such as Moskogiannis ‘musky John’, Moskopoulos ‘musky Paul’, Moskolias ‘musky Elias’.

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