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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Breton : from an old personal name, known from the 10th century on, which Morlet suggests may be an altered form of the Old Breton personal name Morman (also known from 10th-century records). Morman is probably composed of Breton mor ‘sea’, or ‘great’, + man ‘thought’.

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