MUCK Family History

this interesting and curious surname is of early medieval Germanic origin, and is a nickname for a small person or for someone who was particularly restless and active, derived from the Middle High German "mucke", a midge, mosquito, gnat. However, the name may also be of locational origin, from a place so called near Ingelheim, Germany, from which the first recorded namebearer (see below) derived his name. Variants of the surname in the modern idiom include Mueck, Muegge, Mucke, Muecke, Mucks and Muck(e)gg.