Given name
Móric
“Moor; dark, swarthy”
Móric is a masculine given name from Latin, meaning “Moor; dark, swarthy.” It is used in Hungarian and Slovak.
Original LatinMauritius
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Hungarian usage, Móric developed from Mauritius.
Móric’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Móric has a diminutive in Mór. In Hungarian usage, Móric developed from the Latin form Mauritius. In Hungarian usage, Móric has a conventional equivalent in the German form Moritz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Móric has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Móric comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Mauritiusroot · Latin
- MauriceEnglish
- Maurizioequivalent
- MoritzGerman
- Mauritzequivalent
- Mavricijequivalent
- Mauritsequivalent
- Meurigequivalent
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People named Móric
- Maurice BenyovszkyHungarian traveller and writer1746–1786
- Móric EsterházyHungarian politician (1881–1960)
- Maurice CsákHungarian Dominican friar1281–1336
- Móric PogányHungarian architect (1878-1942)
- Móric Pálffysoldier, politician, military governor of Hungary (1812–1897)
- Moritz Sándorrider (1805-1878)
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