Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : of uncertain derivation; possibly from a shortened pet form of a personal name ending in -mo, such as Anselmo, Giacomo, or Guglielmo, or alternatively a habitational name from Mosso Santa Maria in Biella province.
- Catalan : occupational name from mosso ‘young man’, ‘apprentice’.
- Spanish and Portuguese : variant from Spanish mozo, Portuguese mǫo ‘youth’, ‘young man’, ‘apprentice’.