Where Does the Moffatt Surname Come From?

If your family name is Moffatt, its origin lies with Moffat, a long-established Scottish surname.

What does the surname Moffatt mean?

Its meaning, shared with Moffat, is “Long plain”. 4,542 Americans were listed as Moffatt in the 2010 census.

Is Moffatt the same name as Moffat?

The extra “t” in Moffatt is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Moffett.

Does every Moffatt family have a crest?

Arms linked to Moffat and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Moffatt report, with a museum-style coat of arms.