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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of numerous places named Muro, from muro ‘wall’.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from a place named Muro.
  • Southern Italian (Murò) : nickname from medieval Greek mouros ‘stupid’, ‘foolish’ (classical Greek mōros).

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