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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : from the Middle English personal name Myat, formed from My, a truncated version of Mihel (an Old French form of Michael) + the diminutive suffix -at (from Old French -et, crossed with the originally pejorative Old French -ard).

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