Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan (Móra): habitational
name from any of the places named Mora, in some cases from mora
‘mulberry’ (Late Latin mora, originally the plural of classical
Latin morum).Occitan and Catalan (Morà): from
Morandus, an old personal name of uncertain derivation and
meaning.Italian: topographic name from Old Italian
mora ‘pile of stones’.Hungarian (Móra):
from a pet form of the personal name Móricz, Hungarian form
of Morris.Czech and Polish: from a short form of a
personal name, e.g. Czech Mauric, Polish Maurycy,
derived from Latin Mauritius (see Morris).Polish:
possibly a nickname from mora ‘sickness’, ‘plague’.Czech: possibly a nickname from mora ‘vampire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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