Morf
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Acronym of molecular recognition feature
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔɹf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.2K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 363K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,350 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of molecular recognition feature.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #640 | 1,350 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.4K | Morf | 50 |
| US United States | — | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 152 | Morf | 114 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Morf | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 795K | — | Morf | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Morf | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Morf | 1 |
1,350 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Morf is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, morph (physical form representing morpheme)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acy, Morphou (a town in north-west Cyprus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- David Morfb. 1700CHSwiss builder
- Heinrich Morfb. 1818CHSwiss pedagogue and writer (1818-1899)
- Rudolf Morfb. 1839CHSwiss politician (1839-1925)
- Heinrich Morfb. 1854CHSwiss philologist, romanist and linguist (1854-1921)
- Hans Morfb. 1896CHSwiss jurist (1896-1990)
- Gustav Morfb. 1900CHSwiss politician (1900-1978)
- Doris Morfb. 1927CHSwiss politician, publisher and author (1927-2003)
- Fritz Morfb. 1928CHSwiss footballer (1928–2011)
- Isabel Morfb. 1957CHSwiss author
- Anaelle Morffilm director
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.4K | #804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 152 | #120,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 136 | #118,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Morf mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of molecular recognition feature. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Morf?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔɹf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morf have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Morf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morf.
- Where is Morf most common?
- Morf is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Morf?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,350 people named Morf in 2024, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Morf compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Morf is the 640th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morfThe 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, “Morf” — the 640th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.