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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French mortier ‘mortar’, perhaps an occupational name for an alchemist or spicer, or perhaps derived from a house sign.
  • French : habitational name from various places in France and Belgium, called Mortiers, for example, in Aisne and Charente-Maritime in France, or Mortier, for example, in the Belgian province of Liège.

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