Moris Forename
Approximately 49,927 people bear this name
Moris Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin Mauritius ‘a Moor’; the name of a martyr said to have belonged to the Theban legion and to have been martyred in Switzerland a.d. 286. The name is found in use in England from the 11th C, sometimes in the French form Meurisse, but more often in the English Moris or Morris.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 99% | 17,016 | 1:2,407 | 345 |
| Kenya | 100% | 5,022 | 1:9,221 | 1,199 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 4,497 | 1:11,739 | 1,448 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 4,177 | 1:17,675 | 1,517 |
| Nigeria | 96% | 2,368 | 1:74,985 | 4,717 |
| India | 93% | 1,974 | 1:615,440 | 46,598 |
| El Salvador | - | 1,816 | 1:3,492 | 419 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,756 | 1:146,904 | 15,299 |
| Papua New Guinea | 94% | 1,681 | 1:4,850 | 520 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Zambia | - | 913 | 1:17,366 | 1,576 |
| United States | 92% | 823 | 1:440,507 | 12,118 |
| South Africa | 99% | 612 | 1:89,106 | 7,532 |
| Malawi | 95% | 487 | 1:35,138 | 2,639 |
| Italy | 100% | 438 | 1:139,411 | 2,273 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 419 | 1:72,673 | 5,528 |
| Egypt | 100% | 412 | 1:223,061 | 7,852 |
| Russia | 99% | 340 | 1:424,217 | 4,926 |
| Philippines | 97% | 299 | 1:354,547 | 13,182 |
| Colombia | 83% | 294 | 1:162,513 | 4,228 |
| Liberia | 99% | 288 | 1:15,320 | 1,160 |
| Zimbabwe | 98% | 270 | 1:57,125 | 4,781 |
| Georgia | 100% | 227 | 1:16,469 | 1,288 |
| Turkey | 99% | 177 | 1:439,558 | 6,573 |
| Brazil | 100% | 156 | 1:1,373,309 | 32,633 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 156 | 1:1,245,883 | 20,279 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 149 | 1:202,697 | 7,371 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 108 | 1:200,097 | 8,490 |
| Croatia | 100% | 108 | 1:39,047 | 1,532 |
| Armenia | 100% | 94 | 1:31,051 | 1,454 |
| Greece | 100% | 92 | 1:118,854 | 3,000 |
| Sweden | 100% | 86 | 1:114,627 | 4,742 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 83 | 1:6,999 | 770 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 78 | 1:394,698 | 7,244 |
| Germany | 100% | 73 | 1:1,324,354 | 9,189 |
| Honduras | 100% | 69 | 1:127,789 | 3,689 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 66 | 1:244,067 | 3,287 |
| Canada | 100% | 50 | 1:662,667 | 15,630 |
| Albania | 100% | 45 | 1:67,702 | 5,487 |
| Mexico | 79% | 40 | 1:3,103,611 | 15,252 |
| Belgium | 100% | 39 | 1:294,616 | 5,997 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 33 | 1:211,830 | 5,179 |
| Peru | 74% | 26 | 1:1,222,748 | 15,121 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 25 | 1:417,251 | 13,014 |
| England | 100% | 25 | 1:2,224,117 | 27,299 |
| Kazakhstan | 89% | 23 | 1:771,602 | 9,319 |
| Panama | 100% | 23 | 1:169,850 | 6,950 |
| Estonia | 100% | 20 | 1:65,769 | 3,350 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 20 | 1:171,382 | 3,429 |
| Botswana | 100% | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Czechia | 100% | 16 | 1:666,010 | 2,826 |
| Belarus | 100% | 15 | 1:632,159 | 3,807 |
| France | 100% | 15 | 1:4,431,356 | 18,897 |
| Nicaragua | 88% | 14 | 1:429,881 | 7,902 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 13 | 1:189,135 | 3,748 |
| Spain | 100% | 13 | 1:3,579,228 | 14,309 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 13 | 1:631,807 | 9,098 |
| San Marino | 100% | 12 | 1:2,743 | 338 |
| Thailand | 100% | 11 | 1:6,369,619 | 106,118 |
| Benin | 100% | 10 | 1:1,057,584 | 26,153 |
| Ghana | 100% | 9 | 1:2,998,468 | 5,965 |
| South Sudan | 67% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 8 | 1:1,205,368 | 16,287 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 8 | 1:746,660 | 19,030 |
| Argentina | 100% | 7 | 1:6,110,463 | 14,292 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 6 | 1:40,570 | 1,514 |
| Chile | 78% | 6 | 1:2,934,535 | 17,145 |
| Congo | 100% | 6 | 1:834,868 | 13,992 |
| Guyana | - | 6 | 1:127,210 | 8,948 |
| Israel | 100% | 6 | 1:1,400,486 | 16,782 |
| Jamaica | - | 6 | 1:480,538 | 12,525 |
| Australia | - | 5 | 1:2,731,524 | 22,009 |
| Paraguay | 67% | 5 | 1:1,447,361 | 8,023 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 5 | 1:1,430,399 | 43,518 |
| Austria | 100% | 4 | 1:2,128,550 | 10,134 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 4 | 1:881,114 | 5,655 |
| China | - | 4 | 1:341,513,946 | 78,144 |
| Denmark | - | 4 | 1:1,412,374 | 15,217 |
| Haiti | - | 4 | 1:2,681,738 | 23,796 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Lithuania | - | 4 | 1:737,970 | 2,861 |
| Norway | 100% | 4 | 1:1,283,082 | 16,224 |
| Scotland | 75% | 4 | 1:1,337,592 | 11,885 |
| Syria | - | 4 | 1:4,826,519 | 5,774 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Costa Rica | 67% | 3 | 1:1,589,316 | 14,648 |
| Kosovo | - | 3 | 1:620,480 | 13,695 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 3 | 1:453,806 | 18,410 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Lebanon | - | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Niger | 100% | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Serbia | 100% | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Singapore | - | 2 | 1:3,143,527 | 27,876 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 2 | 1:26,776 | 754 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:4,643,519 | 13,375 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1 | 1:16,902,083 | 43,152 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Qatar | - | 1 | 1:2,369,605 | 59,530 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | - | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| South Korea | - | 1 | 1:5,544,421 | 37,250 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Móris (2), Morís (1) & Mòris (1) are calculated separately.
Moris (29,982) may also be a surname.
Moris Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin Mauritius ‘a Moor’; the name of a martyr said to have belonged to the Theban legion and to have been martyred in Switzerland a.d. 286. The name is found in use in England from the 11th C, sometimes in the French form Meurisse, but more often in the English Moris or Morris. It gave rise to the surnames Morris, Morriss, Maurice, Morison, Morrison, Morson, Morse, Morin, and Morcock. Maurice has now replaced Morris as the usual spelling of the christian name. It has been used in Ireland to render the native Moriertagh (Moriarty) ‘sea warrior'. The Welsh form is Meuriz.
Mauricius Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum? 1086, Curia Regis Rolls 1196-1220. Meurik Testa de Neville, or Book of Fees, temp. Hen. III-Edw. I 13th C. Moris Feudal Aids 1346. Moricius Feudal Aids 1431. Morys Lincs 1459. Mores The Coventry Leet Book 1471. Mourice The Coventry Leet Book 1539. Mauris 15th C Brut. Merick seu Morrice Lyford 1655.
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Moris Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Moris in the Russian language | ||
| Морис | moris | - |
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