More
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: inflection of morar:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
More is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 237K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant surname of debated origin; may be from Gaelic mòr ‘big’ or a Scots location name ‘moor’. Early record: Robertus More, burgess of Aberdeen, 1317.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How More is read(measured from records)
More is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi73%
No dictionary in our sources glosses More in Hindi.
- Spanish15%
inflection of morar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.3%
Variant surname of debated origin; may be from Gaelic mòr ‘big’ or a Scots location name ‘moor’. Early record: Robertus More, burgess of Aberdeen, 1317.
as a nameScottish Surnames
comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
More counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | More | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | More | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 8,841 | 1 in 5.1K | 8.8K | — | — |
| IN India | #221 | 5,587 | 1 in 237K | 5.6K | More | 216 |
| US United States | — | 4,432 | 1 in 75K | 4.8K | More | 210 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 449 | 1 in 7.5K | 449 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 86 | 1 in 24K | 86 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
More is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French (More); from a short pet form of a Germanic personal name beginning with Maur-, Mor- ‘Moor’, for example, Morbold (-1- bold ‘bold’, ‘brave’) or Morbert (-t- berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from Old French of more ‘Moor’ or from more, moret ‘dark brown’ (diminutive forms). The term was also used to refer to dark-colored cloth.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname for a darkskinned person, from Old French more ‘Moor’ (Latin maurus) (see Moore 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alice Moreb. 1474GBMore [née Harpur; other married name Middleton], Alice, Lady More (b. in or after 1474, d. in or before 1551), second wife of Sir Thomas More
- Thomas Moreb. 1478GBEnglish statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
- Alazonomastix Philalethesb. 1614GBnot in their usual nameEnglish philosopher (1614–1687)
- Hannah Moreb. 1745GBEnglish writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
- Kenneth Moreb. 1914GBBritish film and stage actor (1914–1982)
- Bernard M. Oliverb. 1916USnot in their usual nameAmerican scientist (1916–1995)
- Camilla Moreb. 1957GBEnglish actress
- Max Moreb. 1964USAmerican philosopher and futurist
- Kate Moreb. 1978NLDutch former pornographic actress
- Rebecca Moreb. 1980GBEnglish pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 8.8K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8.4K | #79 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.6K | #1,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,395 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 449 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 86 | #5,011 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name More come from?
- Variant surname of debated origin; may be from Gaelic mòr ‘big’ or a Scots location name ‘moor’. Early record: Robertus More, burgess of Aberdeen, 1317. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name More?
- In the etymology graph, Mehr, MoSt and Dakissaga are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce More?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name More mean?
- In Spanish, inflection of morar:
- In which country does More have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named More in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled more.
- How common is the name More?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 8,841 people named More, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is More compared with other names?
- In India, More is the 221st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about More?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “More” — the 221st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.