Given name & surname
Morell
“a dark-skinned man; Moorish”
Morell is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Original FrenchMorel
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
From Old French more (“dark”), from Latin Maurus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Morell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 68 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 10 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 6 in 1935. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 111 as a first name in 2020; 3,807 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.
Morell’s family of names
Morell has a related form in Morrell. Morell has a related form in Morel. Morell has a related form in Morele.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
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 Morell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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