Morìs
given name · Latin script
Morìs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a dark person, from Moris ‘Moor’, ‘Negro’. Compare Moore.
- BEBelgium1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 30K
- ESSpain1 in 83K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Morìs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,508 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moris in US United States, BE Belgium, AG Antigua & Barbuda and Morís in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname for a dark person, from Moris ‘Moor’, ‘Negro’. Compare Moore
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Morìs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 1,508 | 1 in 30K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,198 | 1 in 177K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,115 | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | Moris | 204 |
| BE Belgium | — | 989 | 1 in 12K | 989 | Moris | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | 599 | 1 in 83K | 599 | Morís | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 35 | 1 in 146K | 35 | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #512 | — | — | — | Moris | 1 |
1,508 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Morìs mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a dark person, from Moris ‘Moor’, ‘Negro’. Compare Moore Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Morìs have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Morìs, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Morìs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morìs is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morìs?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,508 people named Morìs, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Morìs compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Morìs is the 512th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mor%C3%ACsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Morìs” — the 512th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.