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Origin / History of the Mustin Name

This unusual and interesting name is of English loctional origin, from either of the places called ‘Muston’ in Leicestershire or East Yorkshire. In Leicestershire it is first recorded as ‘Moston’ in 1125, and as ‘Muston’ in 1333.  It is said to mean either an enclosure by a muddy stream, from the Old English pre-7th Century ‘must’, or an enclosure, homestead or village infested by mice, from the Old English ‘Mus-tun’.  The placename in East Yorkshire is first recorded as ‘Mustone’ in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as ‘Mussetuna’ in 1170, and means ‘Musi's tun’, with the Old Norse byname ‘Musi’ as the first element.  The Old English ‘tun’ meant enclosure or homestead, and later village, eventually becoming ‘town’. The surname can be found as ‘Mustin’, ‘Muston’ and ‘Mustyn’, with the first recorded spelling of the family name to be that of George Mustine, 1637, in London.

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