The morland Surname
morland Name Meaning and History
- Northern English and Scottish: variant spelling of Moreland.
- Dutch: topographic name for someone living in an area of peat.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so called. The name has different origins according to its location; in all cases, the second element is from Old Norse land ‘land’.
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