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MOSKUS: What is the origin of this last name?

Is it Lithuanian? Someone mentioned to me that "MOCKUS" is an actual Lithuanian surname, so could it have been a variation in spelling? My last name comes from my great-grandfather whom married a Lithuanian immigrant, so it's possible he too is Lithuanian, but that has yet to be confirmed. I could not find any origins on this last name with this exact spelling. Any one have good leads or info? Thanks in advance!

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  • Maxi
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I believe it is Lithuanian with variants of spellings...Mackevicius, Mockevice,Mockus, Moskus, often when people left their own birth country and moved to other parts of the world, they would change the spelling to suit , so their new homeland and people there would be able to spell and say it............have you looked on passenger ship lists and scanned down Lithuanian immigrants, you may get all diffent spelling of the same name.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are immigrants with this name in the passenger lists from from Germany, Lithuania and Russia. If you post the name of your great grandfather here, someone will come along to look him up.

    Source(s): ancestry.com
  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Norway. I constantly knew that my final call Shelley wasn't from England yet from Norway. i latterly got here upon that throughout Norway and Sweden, the very elementary call Kjell is stated shell or shelley. sort of relaxing finding that stuff up, exceedingly once you come across a leap forward.

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