from a medieval personal name, a variant of
Maud (see Mould).from the Old English personal name
Mod(a), a short form of the various compound names
containing the element mod ‘spirit’, ‘mind’,
‘courage’.topographic name for someone who lived in a
particularly muddy area, from Middle English mud(de) ‘mud’,
perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for a dauber (one who
constructed buildings of wattle and daub).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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