Mossman Family History
Mossman Name Meaning
Scottish: from Middle English or Scots mos ‘moss bog’ + man ‘man’ either in the topographic sense ‘person who lives at a boggy place’ or perhaps occupational ‘official who is responsible for an area of bog or the peat-cutting on it’. Compare Moorman . English: nickname from Middle English most ‘largest greatest highest ranking’ + man ‘man’. Americanized form of German Mossmann: occupational name for a producer or seller of must i.e. unfermented grape juice from an agent noun based on a dialect variant of German Most (see Most ). Possibly also an Americanized form of German Massmann . Jewish (Ashkenazic): elaborated form of Moses .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022