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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a diminutive of Moore 2 or 3.
  • English : from an unattested Old English personal name, Mōrwine.
  • Dutch : nickname for a grumbler, from Middle Dutch murren, morren ‘to grumble or growl’.

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