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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : topographic name for a man who lived by a peat bog.
  • German (Mossmann) : occupational name for a producer or seller of must, i.e. unfermented grape juice, from an agent noun based on a dialect variant of German Most (see Most).
  • probably also a spelling variant of Massman.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : elaborated form of Moses.

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