Boy name origins & meanings
- English : From the farm by the sea
Family name origins & meanings
- Northern English : habitational name from any of various places, in Cumbria, County Durham, North Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all named in Old English as ‘settlement or enclosure at the marsh or moor’, from mōr ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.