Names

From the town of Muggia in northeastern Italy near the Slovenian border. It was called Muglae in Latin.

Variant of Müller.

Means “mortar” in Polish. It probably referred to someone who worked with or sold mortar.

Possibly an Americanized form of German Manz.

Means “mill” in French.

From the given name Mauld, a medieval form of Matilda.

From the name of a lost place in Cheshire, derived from the Old English byname Motere meaning “speaker” and heafod meaning “headland”.

From various names of places around Italy. It is derived from a Gaulish word meaning “hill”.

From Japanese 本 (moto) meaning “base, root, origin”. More commonly it is the final character in Japanese surnames.

From the given name Moses.