Mort Family History
Mort Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): of uncertain origin. The most plausible
suggestion is that it is a Norman nickname from Old French mort
‘dead’ (Latin mortuus), presumably referring to a person of
deathly pallor or unnaturally still countenance, or possibly to
someone who played the part of death in a pageant. However, it could
also be the result of survival into the Middle English period of an
Old English personal name, Morta, or an Old English vocabulary
word mort ‘young salmon or trout’, both postulated by Ekwall to
explain various place names (see for example Morcom).French: either a nickname from Old French mort ‘dead’ (see
above), or an alteration, by folk etymology, of the personal name
Mor(e) (see Moore 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mort
Name Distribution of Mort Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mort families
 37 - 72  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mort families
|
441 - 880 148 - 440 |
1 - 147 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mort families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mort Family Origin
Mort Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Mort
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Mort Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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