Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish and northern English : from a medieval female personal name, Mohaut, a variant of Mau(l)d (see Mould).
- Scottish and northern English : occupational name for an official in charge of communal pasture land, Middle English moward, maward, from Old English māwe ‘meadow’ + weard ‘guardian’ (see Ward 1).
- Scottish and northern English : habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Mon(t)haut, from Old French mont ‘hill’ (see Mont 1) + haut ‘high’ (Latin altus).