Släkthistoria för Moppett
Moppett Vad efternamn betyder
from a diminutive of Middle English moppe ‘fool simpleton’ also ‘little child baby doll’. Compare the surname Mopp which died out comparatively recently. The diminutive form moppet ‘baby young (girl) child darling’ is not recorded until 1601 in OED but may have existed in Middle English.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
