The mudd Surname
mudd Name Meaning and History
- from a medieval personal name, a variant of Maud (see Mould).
- from the Old English personal name Mod(a), a short form of the various compound names containing the element mod ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, ‘courage’.
- 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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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