Mattock Family History
Mattock Name Meaning
perhaps from Middle English mattok ‘mattock’ (Old English mattuc) for a maker or user of such a tool but this may be a misleading coincidence of linguistic form with that of the name in (ii). Some of the early bearers listed below may otherwise belong at (2).possibly from an unrecorded early Middle English personal name *Mattoc a pet form of Old English *Mætta (attested in place-names) + the Old English hypocoristic suffix -oc. in Cornwall and Devon apparently a variant of Maddock with devoicing of /d/ to /t/. Compare Alexander
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016