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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : topographic name for someone who lived in the vicinity of marshy ground, moere (related to modern Dutch moeras ‘marsh’), or a habitational name for someone from Moere in West Flanders, named with this word.
  • Dutch and Belgian : occupational name for someone who dug and sold peat.
  • Dutch and Belgian : variant of Moers.

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