Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): nickname for someone
with dark hair and a swarthy complexion, from Spanish and Portuguese
moreno ‘dark-haired’, a word of uncertain origin, probably from
Late Latin maurinus, a derivative of classical Latin
Maurus ‘Moor’. Compare Moore 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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