Morant
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Old French personal name Morant, perhaps ‘steadfast’ or ‘courage-raven’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɔɹənt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 48K
- USUnited States1 in 157K
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)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,805 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Old French personal name Morant, perhaps ‘steadfast’ or ‘courage-raven’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 2,805 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Morant | 102 |
| US United States | 2,120 | 1 in 157K | 2.1K | Morant | 81 |
| FR France | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 154 | Morant | 194 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 123K | listed | Morant | 24 |
| AR Argentina | 195 | 1 in 233K | 195 | Morant | 33 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Morant | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 111 | 1 in 106K | 111 | Morant | 20 |
2,805 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Morant 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.
habitational name, a variant of Morand.
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)
- Philip Morantb. 1700JEEnglish clergyman
- Breaker Morantb. 1864AUAnglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier
- Nicholas Morantb. 1910CACanadian photographer (1910–1999)
- Angela Morantb. 1941GBBritish actress
- Richard Morantb. 1945GBEnglish actor (1945-2011)
- Pablo Morantb. 1970ARArgentine footballer
- Diana Morantb. 1980ESSpanish politician
- Lydia Morantb. 1990ESSpanish swimmer
- Ja Morantb. 1999USAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Víctor Mansanet BoïguesESnot in their usual nameValencian politician
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #1,815 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,205 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,942 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 236 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 198 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 171 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 143 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Morant mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old French personal name Morant, perhaps ‘steadfast’ or ‘courage-raven’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Morant?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹənt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morant have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Morant, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morant.
- Where is Morant most common?
- Morant is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Morant?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,805 people named Morant, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morantThe 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, “Morant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.