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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from Morga in Biscay province.
  • Italian : from the Salento dialect word morga ‘marc (of olives)’, ‘dregs’, possibly applied as a derogatory nickname.
  • Polish : from morga, a term denoting a unit of land measuring 5,600 square meters, hence a nickname for a wealthy landowner.

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