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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : from a diminutive of the medieval nickname and personal name More (see Moore).
  • Italian : Venetian variant of Morini.
  • Spanish (Morín) : possibly a derivative of Moro.
  • Dutch : from a short pet form of a Germanic compound personal name beginning with Maur-, Mor- (see More 4).

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