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moreland Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: habitational name from any of various places, notably in the Borders region and in Kinross, named Moreland, from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + land ‘land’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of moreland Families in the US in 1920
Number of moreland families
 128-253
 43-127
 1-42
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