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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps a shortened form of Montmorency, a habitational name from a place so named in Val-d’Oise; or an altered spelling of Morancé, a habitational name from Morencé in Rhône, named in Latin as Maurentiacum, from the personal name Maurentius + suffix -acum.

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