Muddle Family History
Muddle Name Meaning
perhaps from Anglo-Norman French modle a dialect form of mosle ‘mussel’ with /d/ before a resonant consonant instead of /z/ as in the fruit-word medlar from the Norman equivalent of Old French meslier. For the pronunciation see also Madle . For the meaning: Mussell is also found in Sussex as early as 1296.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016