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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Sunnmøre called Muri, probably originally Mærvin, from Old Norse mærr ‘illustrious’, ‘glorious’ + vin ‘meadow’.
  • Swiss German : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Möri (see Mori 3).

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