Given name & surname
Mori
“a dark-skinned man; Moorish”
Mori is a variant of Morris. In Latin use, Morris carries the interpretation “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
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Meaning & origin
What it means
Mori is a variant of Morris. In Latin use, Morris carries the interpretation “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mori is a variant of Morris. The history of Morris gives this family its wider story. Morris was in use during the Middle Ages.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Mori through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 129
- 47 boys · 82 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #10,346 for boys · #12,770 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,770 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1980. It also appeared in 7 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 377 as a first name in 2020; 3,968 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.
Mori’s family of names
Mori has a related form in Morris. In Italian usage, Mori as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Brown. In Greek usage, Mori as a surname is a transliteration of Μόρη.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mori
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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