Moscato — Family Name, Records and Arms

Moscato and Mosca are two spellings with one history. Its meaning, shared with Mosca, is “a nickname from mosca, "fly"”.

Heraldry and the Moscato name

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Mosca surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

A variant of Mosca

Moscato is built on the same root as Mosca, with the ending -to. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The 2010 US Census counted 1,546 people named Moscato, ranking it number 18,043 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 314 births in France were registered under Moscato. Get the complete Moscato report, with a museum-style coat of arms.