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