Updated June 9, 2019 Share: Family name origins & meanings English : probably a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Emery, Morey).Roger Mowry (c. 1612–66) emigrated from England to MA before 1634, when he married Mary Johnson in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA. Famous people with this last name Tia Mowry