Mora

Locally spelled Moura in PT Portugal.

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.

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mora, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Berry
• Nora
• Scotland
• Maren
• Mimi

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Mora is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname38 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Moera, Mörä, Möra, Morà, Môrã

• a separate name8 spellings in the group

  Also written Morå, Morá, Mor-A, Môra, Móra

• Spanish surname50 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Peru, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Polish, Croatian

  Also written Mur, Mura, Morra, Мора, Мура

• Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, United States

  Also written Móra, Môra

• Swedish surname19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Peru

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Morå, Mörä, Móra, Mörã, Morà

• Turkish surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Spain, United States, Peru

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Moras, Môrâ, Morás, Morãs, Morã

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Mora is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from Morandus, an old personal name of uncertain derivation and meaning.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• topographic name from Old Italian mora ‘pile of stones’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• possibly a nickname from mora ‘sickness’, ‘plague’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• possibly a nickname from mora ‘vampire’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Spanish, someone who lived by a mulberry or blackberry bush, from Sp. mora mulberry, blackberry (LL mora, originally the pi. of class. L morum). There are numerous places named with this word, and the surname may also be a habi¬ tation name from any of these. It is also possible that it was used as a nickname, with reference to the dark colour of the

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Mauricio Solísb. 1972CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
• José Juan Bareab. 1984USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican basketball player (born 1984)
• Celso Borgesb. 1988CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

83 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Mora mean, and where does it come from?

habitational name from any of the places named Mora, in some cases from mora ‘mulberry’ (Late Latin mora, originally the plural of classical Latin morum). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

What are other forms of the name Mora?

In the etymology graph, Miya, Moral and Maie are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Mora?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈmo.ɾa/ (Wiktionary); in English /ˈmɔːɹə/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Mora?

Mondonomo estimates about 204 thousand people named Mora in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mora. After it come Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Mora most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mora is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 38 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Mora?

In Costa Rica, the national register counted 135,368 people named Mora, about 1 in 38 residents.

How common is Mora compared with other names?

In Mexico, Mora is the 89th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.