Origin and popularity of the name MORELOS
Origin
Morelos : Hispanic:: 1: (mainly Mexico Colombia and the Philippines): probably an altered form of Galician Mourelos itself a habitational name from any of several places called Mourelos in Galicia Spain (named with a derivative of pre-Latin mor ‘stone’) or the plural form of Mourelo which is probably a nickname from a diminutive of mouro ‘Moor’.2: (Mexico): habitational name from Morelos the name of a state in Mexico named in honor of José María Morelos y Pavón (1765–1815) one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence movement.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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