Last name: MOREL
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Last name frequency
MOREL : This last name is indexed 2,816,682 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MOREL : 1: French and Spanish: from the medieval personal name Morel from the Latin name Maurellus derived from Maurus ‘Moor’ (see Mauro compare Moreau 1).2: French: nickname for a dark-skinned man from Old French morel ‘dark brown black’ a diminutive of moré ‘brown black’ (see More 2 compare Moreau 2). Compare also Morell 3 and Morrell 2.3: English: variant of Morrell 2 a cognate of 1 above.
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