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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Morrell or Morel.
  • Catalan : habitational name from any of several places called Morell in Tarragona and Girona provinces or Majorica and Minorca Islands, from a vernacular form of Latin Maurellus ‘dark-skinned’, diminutive of Maurus ‘Moor’.

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