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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From the moors; marshlands

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : habitational name from any of various places, notably in the Borders region and in Kinross, named Moreland, from Old English mōr ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + land ‘land’.

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