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The muro Surname

muro Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous places named Muro, from muro ‘wall’.
  2. Southern Italian: habitational name from a place named Muro.
  3. Southern Italian (Murò): nickname from medieval Greek mouros ‘stupid’, ‘foolish’ (classical Greek moros).

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muro Family Facts

Distribution of muro Families in the US in 1920
Number of muro families
 16-30
 6-15
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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