Morrow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sonal nameMurchadh, composed of the elements muir sea + cadh warrior; cf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morrow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 5.9K
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 Morrow itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moro 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)
sonal nameMurchadh, composed of the elements muir sea + cadh warrior; cf. McMorrough and Murphy. Vars.: Mor rough, Mur row, Mur rough. Mort r. English (Lancs.): of uncertain origin. The most plausible suggestion is that it is a Norman nickname from OF mort dead (L mortuus), presumably referring to a per- son of deathly pallor or unnaturally still countenance.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morrow 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Morrow | 10 |
| US United States | #500 | 56,840 | 1 in 5.9K | 57K | Morrow | 504 |
| BR Brazil | — | 15,851as Moro | 1 in 13K | 16K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | #655 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Morrow | 203 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,293as Moro | 1 in 6K | 8.3K | Moro | 26 |
| CA Canada | #461 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Morrow | 202 |
| BE Belgium | — | 4,645as Moreau | 1 in 2.5K | 4.6K | Morrow | 15 |
| IE Ireland | #509 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Morrow | 69 |
| NZ New Zealand | #542 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Morrow | 82 |
| PS Palestine | #436 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Morrow | 4 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Morrow 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.
personal name Murchadh, composed of the elements muir sea + cadh warrior; cf. McMorrough and Murphy. Vars.: Morrough, Murrow, Murrough.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Murchadha (see McMorrow).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The next or following day.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from the Gaelic personal name Murchadh
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Irish, Without the prefix Mac, Morrow is now more common in Ulster than in England whence it originated. In Fermanagh, however, it is usually for MacMorrow. See next entry
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jeremiah Morrowb. 1771USAmerican politician (1771-1852)
- Dwight Morrowb. 1873USAmerican politician (1873–1931)
- Anne Morrow Lindberghb. 1906USAmerican aviator and writer (1906–2001)
- Jeff Morrowb. 1907USAmerican actor and World War II veteran (1907–1993)
- Vic Morrowb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929–1982)
- Bobby Morrowb. 1935USAmerican sprinter (1935–2020)
- Barry Morrowb. 1948USAmerican film producer and screenwriter
- Rob Morrowb. 1962USAmerican actor and director (born 1962)
- Kirby Morrowb. 1973CACanadian actor (1973–2020)
- Anthony Morrowb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 57K | #594 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 56K | #538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 54K | #609 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #51,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #50,851 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #120,750 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Morrow come from?
- sonal nameMurchadh, composed of the elements muir sea + cadh warrior; cf. McMorrough and Murphy. Vars.: Mor rough, Mur row, Mur rough. Mort r. English (Lancs.): of uncertain origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Morrow mean?
- Recorded meaning: sonal nameMurchadh, composed of the elements muir sea + cadh warrior; cf.
- What are other forms of the name Morrow?
- In the etymology graph, Morgen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Morrow?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morrow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Morrow in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morrow.
- How common is the name Morrow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 56,840 people named Morrow in 2010, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Morrow compared with other names?
- In Palestine, Morrow is the 436th most common surname of 17,903 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morrowThe 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, “Morrow” — the 436th most common surname in Palestine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.