Morency
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps a shortened form of Montmorency, a habitational name from a place so named in Val-d’Oise; or an altered spelling of Morance, a habitational name from Morence in Rhone, named in Latin as Mauren
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Morency is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps a shortened form of Montmorency, a habitational name from a place so named in Val-d’Oise; or an altered spelling of Morance, a habitational name from Morence in Rhone, named in Latin as Maurentiacum, from the personal name Maurentius -I- suffix -acum.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Morency 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, voir Montmorency.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- André Morencyb. 1910CACanadian painter (1910–2002)
- Pierre Morencyb. 1942CACanadian writer, poet and playwright
- Rénald Morencyb. 1943CAresearcher and professor at Université Laval
- Lise Baucher-Morencyb. 1953CACanadian writer, editor
- André Morencyb. 1957CACanadian writer
- François Morencyb. 1966CACanadian actor, television presenter and radio host
- Catherine Morencyb. 1977CACanadian poet
- Vernand Morencyb. 1980USplayer of American football
- Pascal Morencyb. 1982CACanadian ice hockey player
- Joanne MorencyCAQuebec poet and psychologist
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,831 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Morency mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps a shortened form of Montmorency, a habitational name from a place so named in Val-d’Oise; or an altered spelling of Morance, a habitational name from Morence in Rhone, named in Latin as Mauren… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Morency have the most bearers?
- Morency is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Morency?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morencyThe 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, “Morency”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.