Last name: MOAT
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MOAT : This last name is indexed 14,535 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MOAT : English: from Middle English mote ‘moat protective ditch’ (Old French mote motte ‘mound embankment’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived at or by a moat or habitational from one of many minor places so named in England and Scotland. There has probably been some confusion with Mott.
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