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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a pet form of a Germanic compound personal name formed with Maur-, Mor-, meaning ‘Moor’ as the first element.
  • Swedish (Morén) : probably an ornamental name composed of the place name element mor ‘copse’, ‘marshy wood’ + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.

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