Morné
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Morné is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 102K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 271K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Morne in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morné 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Morné | 94 |
| AU Australia | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Morné | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 775K | listed | Morné | 45 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Morne | 82 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Morné | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 821K | — | Morné | 5 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Morné is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, morned (bearing a morne, a ring over the point of a lance, sword, etc.)
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)
- Morné du Plessisb. 1949ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Morné van der Merweb. 1973ZASouth African rugby player (1973–2013)
- Morné Kargb. 1977NANamibian cricketer
- Morné van Wykb. 1979ZASouth African cricketer
- Morne Schreuderb. 1979NANamibian rugby union player
- Morné Morkelb. 1984ZASouth African cricketer
- Morné Steynb. 1984ZASouth African rugby union player
- Morné Engelbrechtb. 1988ZANamibian cricketer
- Morné Hanekomb. 1988ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Morné Hugob. 1991ZASouth African rugby union footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #39,445 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Morné mean, and where does it come from?
- Rampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Morné a male or female name?
- Morné is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Morné have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Morné in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morné.
- How common is the name Morné?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Morné in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Morné?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morn%C3%A9The 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, “Morné”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.