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The mora Surname

mora Name Meaning and History

  1. Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan (Móra): habitational name from any of the places named Mora, in some cases from mora ‘mulberry’ (Late Latin mora, originally the plural of classical Latin morum).
  2. Occitan and Catalan (Morà): from Morandus, an old personal name of uncertain derivation and meaning.
  3. Italian: topographic name from Old Italian mora ‘pile of stones’.
  4. Hungarian (Móra): from a pet form of the personal name Móricz, Hungarian form of Morris.
  5. Czech and Polish: from a short form of a personal name, e.g. Czech Mauric, Polish Maurycy, derived from Latin Mauritius (see Morris).
  6. Polish: possibly a nickname from mora ‘sickness’, ‘plague’.
  7. Czech: possibly a nickname from mora ‘vampire’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mora Families in the US in 1920
Number of mora families
 62-121
 21-61		 1-20
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Jose MORA - 1850 - from Canary Islands > Key West, FL Judy Shaw Hoffman 5
Mora Heritage Antonia P.Mora 20
I'm a Mora too! Susan Mora V.O. 20
Interested about my last name! Beverly Mora 12
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Origin of our last name. gcmora 36
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