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.