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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French moré ‘brown’, ‘black’, also ‘dark colored material’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold such fabrics.
  • French : habitational name from a place in Indre-et-Loire called Moré.

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