Family name origins & meanings
- English (East Midlands) : of uncertain origin, ostensibly a patronymic, though Reaney believes it to be a nickname from Anglo-Norman French muisson ‘sparrow’.
- French : variant of Musset (see Mussett 1).
- French : nickname from Old French moisson, mousson, ‘sparrow’.
- French : habitational name from Mousson in Meuse-et-Moselle, named with the Latin personal name Montius + the suffix -onem, or alternatively, with Latin mons ‘mountain’ + the suffix -ionem.