Last name origin?

Question:anyone know where the last name Moss comes from? i've heard germany and ireland...but i'm not certain...anyone know where i can find out? thanks!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: anyone know where the last name Moss comes from? i've heard germany and ireland...but i'm not certain...anyone know where i can find out? thanks!

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Moss Name Meaning and History
English and Welsh: from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)
Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.
Irish (Ulster): part translation of Gaelic ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.
hope this helps.

English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish. Also, the Americanization of the Jewish name Moses.

English

At least one person with the same name had a coat of arms

Motto: I flourish in the rose

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