Family name origins & meanings
- English (East Anglia, chiefly Norfolk) : occupational name for someone who mowed pasture lands to provide hay, from an agent derivative of Middle English mow(en) ‘mow’ (Old English māwen).
- Welsh : nickname from mawr ‘big’ (see Moore 6).
- German (Möwer) : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German mōven ‘to torment, trouble, or burden’.