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The moran Surname

moran Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Móráin ‘descendant of Mórán’, a personal name meaning ‘great’, ‘large’; the stress is normally on the first syllable.
  2. English: variant of Morant, normally pronounced with the stress on the second syllable.
  3. Spanish (Morán): habitational name from places called Morán in Asturies, Galicia (Pontevedra) and Aragon (Zaragoza).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of moran Families in the US in 1920
Number of moran families
 1045-2088
 349-1044		 1-348
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