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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Spanish : habitational name for someone from any of various places in Spain and Italy named Muro, from muro ‘wall’.
  • Southern Italian : topographic name for someone who lived by a mulberry tree, from the dialect word muru, a habitational name from a place named with this word. Compare Mora.

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