Morison
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Morris
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/mɒɹɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morison is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 200K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 323K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
1,029 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from Morris.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Morison 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,029 | 1 in 323K | 1K | Morison | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 227 | 1 in 200K | 227 | Morison | 26 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 48 | Morison | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | — | — |
| IN India | 17 | 1 in 78M | 17 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | Morison | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
1,029 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Robert Morisonb. 1620GBBritish botanist (1620-1683)
- William Morisonb. 1663British Member of Parliament (1663-1739)
- Samuel Eliot Morisonb. 1887USUnited States admiral and historian (1887-1976)
- Stanley Morisonb. 1889GBtype designer (1889–1967)
- Patricia Morisonb. 1915USAmerican stage and film actress (1915-2018)
- Elsie Morisonb. 1924AUAustralian operatic singer (1924-2016)
- Ian Morisonb. 1943GBBritish astronomer
- Steve Morisonb. 1983GBBritish footballer (born 1983)
- Matthew Morisonb. 1987CAAlpine Snowboarder
- Akiko Morisonb. 2000CACanadian actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Morison mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Morris. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morison?
- A machine transcription gives /mɒɹɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morison have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Morison, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morison.
- Where is Morison most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morison is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morison?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,029 people named Morison in 2010, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morisonThe 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, “Morison”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.