Moffat
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Scottish Gaelic magh (“field, plain”) + fada (“long”).
Pronunciation
[edit]/ˈmɔfɪt/
Proper noun
[edit]Moffat (countable and uncountable, plural Moffats)
- A town and former burgh in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT085052).
- A town in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
- A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Moffat is the 10257th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3143 individuals. Moffat is most common among White (92.68%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Moffat”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 604.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Towns in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- en:Towns in Scotland
- en:Places in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Towns in Colorado, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Colorado, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames
- English surnames from Scottish Gaelic