Updated June 9, 2019

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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).