Morón

loc · Latin script

Meaning: small hill; hillock

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Morón is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 8.2K
  • ARArgentina1 in 12K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

8,614 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MorónLatin(measured from records)
โมรอลThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moron 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)

small hill; hillock

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Morón 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.

Where Morón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain8,6141 in 5.8K8.6KMorón66
AR Argentina3,8361 in 12K3.8KMorón25
US United States1,0261 in 324K1.1KMoron23
BR Brazil7421 in 285K742——
BO Bolivia≈730 est.≈1 in 16K—Morón20
UY Uruguay4151 in 8.2K415—10
CO Colombia≈380 est.≈1 in 131K2Morón23

8,614 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling moron. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Morón is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Moron, Moròn, Moroń, Morön, Morõn

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Moroń, Morôn, Móron, Moron

  • Spanish surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili

    Also written Moron, Moroñ, Moroń, Mòron

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Moron, Móŕóń, Moròn, Moroń

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Moron

  • Russian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Moron, Морон, Moren, Мурен, Muren

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

17001800190020002100Manuel Joaquín Tarancón y Morón, b. 1782Fermín Gonzalo Morón, b. 1816Gabriel Morón, b. 1896Gerardo Morón, b. 1901Jaime Morón, b. 1950Manuel Morón, b. 1956Álex López Morón, b. 1970Ismael Serrano, b. 1974Lorenzo Morón García, b. 1993Paulo Iago, b. 2007

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 5 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Morón mean, and where does it come from?
small hill; hillock Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Morón have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Morón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morón.
Where is Morón most common?
Morón is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Morón?
In Spain, the national register counted 8,614 people named Morón, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Morón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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