First name origin & meaning: English: English moor; meadow; Outdoors loving First name variations: More, Morlee, Morly, Morrs, Morlee, Morleigh, Morry, Morrie, Lee Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of the various places
called Morley (for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, County Durham,
Norfolk, and West Yorkshire), or Moreleigh in Devon, all of which are
named from Old English mōr ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + lēah
‘woodland clearing’.
- Possibly an altered spelling of French
Morlet, a nickname from a diminutive of Old French mor
‘brown’, ‘dark’ (from Latin Maurus ‘Moor’).
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