Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from either of two places in Cheshire. It is possible that the name originally denoted a building where village assemblies were held, named in Old English as ‘meeting-house’, from (ge)mōt ‘meeting’ + ærn ‘house’, ‘hall’. Other possibilities are that the name derives from Old English (ge)mōt-rūm ‘meeting space’, or (ge)mōt-treum ‘assembly trees’.