Explore the Family Name Mozingo

The meaning of Mozingo

African: from an altered form, under Portuguese influence, of a variant of the personal name Nzinga, which is known in Congo and Angola. The name is said to be derived from the Kimbundu verb kujinga ‘to twist, to turn, to wrap’, referring to the umbilical cord being wrapped around a newborn’s neck. The surname Mozingo is found chiefly in NC and several other southern states. Compare Monzingo. — Note: In the data published in 2010 by the US Census Bureau, almost all bearers of the surname Mozingo are reported as “White”. History: The American Mozingos are descended from Edward Mozingo, an African who was brought from Angola to VA as a slave in 1644 and who became a free man after he completed 28 years of indentured servitude in 1672. He settled by a creek called Pantico Run and married an English woman. — Nzinga is today a common surname in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Angola and it is also an African American female personal name. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo a very rare surname Mozinga is found, too.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.