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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill, Middle English mount (from Old English munt, reinforced by Old French mont).
  • Scottish : probably a habitational name from places so called in Peeblesshire, Fife, and Lanarkshire.

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