Surname Moor

Cognomen Moor (Moor , Maurus , مور ) , globally, is a common surname. The cognomen Moor is characteristic of Estonia, where it is quite a common surname, Belgium, and Switzerland (explore the name in all countries). Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Germany, Belgium, and Egypt. Much less frequently, Moor is the forename as well as the last name.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Moor

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Moor	Germany, Egypt, United States, Belgium, Switzerland
Maurus	Germany, Tanzania, United States, Belgium, Switzerland
مور	Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia
Моор	Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

Last names said to be same

Marren, Maure, Mere, Moore, Mor, Morden, More, Moren, Moric, Moór, Mur, Mór, Móric, Māra, Mōr, Де, Мор, Мур, מור, موور, ทุ่ง, ムーア, モール, 姓氏, 摩尔, and 穆尔

Notable namesakes

	girl of the uchter moor Iron Age bog body found in Lower Saxony, Germany (b. 700)
	robert moor Moor, Robert (1567/8–1640), Church of England clergyman and author (b. 1567)
	carel de moor painter from the Northern Netherlands (1655-1738), NL (b. 1655)
	carel de moor painter (1627-1689), BE (b. 1627)
	john moor English Franciscan friar (b. 1629)
	karel de moor (b. 1624)
	carel isaak de moor Dutch painter (1695-1751), NL (b. 1695)
	thomas moor English religious controversialist and barber (born 1648/9, died in or after 1713) (b. 1648)
	bernhardinus de moor NL (b. 1709)
	james moor classical scholar (b. 1712)
	caspar moor (1756-1806), CH (b. 1756)
	henry moor British and Australian politician, GB (b. 1809)
	edward moor British Indologist (b. 1771)
	antoon philips joseph de moor (b. 1764)
	abraham moor (b. 1768)

Characteristic forenames

Ma, Med, Mel, Mor, Mon, Max, Mal, May, Mar, Em, Ed, El, No, Ty, Jd, Je, Jo, Lz, Ly, De, An, Al, Sa, Ms, Mr, Mo, Mia, and Mya