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Updated June 9, 2019

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).

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