Given name & surname · also Celtic
Mor
“an exceptional woman”
Mor is used as a given name and a surname. One Celtic and Irish interpretation is “an exceptional woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Celtic and Irish interpretation is “an exceptional woman.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Celtic and Irish naming traditions.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 5 boys · 14 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 726 as a first name in 2020; 1,095 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mor
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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