Family name origins & meanings
- English : from a medieval personal name, a variant of Maud (see Mould).
- English : from the Old English personal name Mōd(a), a short form of the various compound names containing the element mōd ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, ‘courage’.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived in a particularly muddy area, from Middle English mud(de) ‘mud’, perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for a dauber (one who constructed buildings of wattle and daub).