Music Family History

English: variant of Musick ‘music’. Bosniak Serbian and Croatian (Musić): patronymic from the personal name Musa, a Turkish Muslim form of the Biblical name Moses, used also as a nickname (see Croatian Musa).

Bosniak (Mušić): patronymic from the Bosniak Muslim personal name Mušo, a pet form of Muhamed (see Muhammad). It is also found as a Croatian surname, originating from the time of the Turkish occupation of the Balkans.

Slovenian (Mušič): patronymic from the nickname Muha (from muha ‘fly’) or possibly a topographic name from the etymologically related dialect word mušič ‘foxtail grass’. Compare Musich Musick.

Americanized form (or translation) of Polish Muzyka and its Czech cognate Muzika, the latter being derived from muzika ‘music’. Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Mužík (see Muzik).

Compare Musick.