Mammatt Family History

perhaps from Middle English maumet mamet ‘idol doll puppet’ also ‘pixie’ (Old French mahomet).perhaps from an unrecorded Old French personal name *Mamot or *Mamet pet forms of Old French Mame the name of a French saint. The possibility is strengthened by the existence of the double diminutive pet forms Maminot and Maminet as the surname of a Norman family with lands in Kent and Lincs: Gilbert Maminot 1086 in Domesday Book (Kent); Emma Maminet 1130 in Pipe Rolls (Kent); Wauchelin Maminot 1157 in Templars Records (Lincs). However although Maminot may have alternated with *Mamot the Maminot family appears to have died out in the male line in about 1190. variant of Memmott . The post-medieval bearers under (1) may alternatively belong here. Compare Mary Mamotte 1727 Ann Memmott 1782 Hannah Mommott 1791 in IGI (Sheffield WR Yorks); Elizabeth Mommot 1775 William Memmott 1814 in IGI (Aston WR Yorks).

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016