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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Latin: Dark-skinned; like a Moor
  2. Latin: Dark-skinned

First name variations: Morris, Maury, Morry, Morey, Morrie, Moritz, Moriz, Morets, Meuriz, Moss, Morrell, Mauricio, Maurizio, Murray, Maryse, Morrison, Maurice, Maurice, Morrie, Morry, Moss, Morrison, Morris

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Welsh and English: variant of Morris.
  2. Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, especially Moses. Compare Morris.
  3. Samuel Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the electric telegraph and of Morse code, was a direct descendant of Anthony Morse of Wiltshire, England, who had emigrated to MA in 1635.
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