Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in Cambridgeshire, named in Old English as ‘Mūl’s enclosure’, from Mūl, a personal name or byname meaning ‘mule’ + worð ‘enclosure’. It may also be derived from Mouldsworth in Cheshire, so called from Old English molda ‘crown of the head’, ‘top of a hill’ + worð ‘enclosure’.