Moras
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as habitational name from any of the places named Moras, plural form of Mora.
- BRBrazil1 in 25K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 58K
- UYUruguay1 in 24K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
8,319 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of the places named Moras, plural form of Mora.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Moras is read(measured from records)
Moras is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish41%
habitational name from any of the places named Moras, plural form of Mora.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moras in English.
- Portuguese15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moras in Portuguese.
- French13%
de Moras, le nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moras 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.
8,319 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Moras is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plg. Mòra (žr.). Sietina su lat. Moor (LAG 156), Moors (ten pat, 99, 126), Mors (ten pat, 147), vok. Moor, Mohr, Moro, Morr, Moras, Mohrs (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 435). MORAŠiNSKIS Kn —žr. Marašinskas. *
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional de Morasso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, 1. 'Morast'; 2. wend. moras 'Schmutzbartel'; 3. mhd. möra3/mörat 'Maulbeerwein'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, Variante di Mori
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Ferdinand Morasb. 1821DEGerman lithographer (1821-1908)
- Walter Morasb. 1856DEGerman painter (1856-1925)
- Bruno Morasb. 1883DEGerman painter (1883-1939)
- Bartomeu Bardagí i Morasb. 1915ESSpanish singer (1915-2003)
- Bernard Blasius Morasb. 1941INCatholic archbishop
- Dino Morasb. 1944FRFrench biochemist and chemist
- Karen Morasb. 1954AUAustralian swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, former world record-holder
- Narelle Morasb. 1956AUAustralian swimmer
- Sarah Morasb. 1988CACanadian mixed martial artist
- Paolo MorasITresearcher
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.3K | #1,508 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 779 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 494 | #8,064 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 494 | #8,062 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 146 | #11,264 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 83 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Moras mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of the places named Moras, plural form of Mora. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Moras have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Moras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moras.
- Where is Moras most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moras is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moras?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,319 people named Moras, about 1 in 25 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, “Moras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.