Mores

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mores is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In English, recorded as from the personal name Maurits (see Morris).

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 37K
  • BRBrazil1 in 39K

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)

5,366 people

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Maurits (see Morris).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mores is read(measured from records)

Mores 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.

  • English37%

    from the personal name Maurits (see Morris).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish33%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mores in Spanish.

  • Portuguese12%

    second-person singular present subjunctive of morar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mores in Arabic.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Mores 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 Mores is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5,3661 in 39K5.4KMores74
PH Philippines≈4,600 est.≈1 in 24K—Mores35
AR Argentina1,2381 in 37K1.2KMores45
US United States4221 in 788K485Mores63
FR France≈260 est.≈1 in 260K26—2
BE Belgium1741 in 67K174Mores5
HR Croatia461 in 92K46——

5,366 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mores is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Möres, Morès, Moeres, Morés

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

    Also written Morès, Morés, Mõręs

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Morés

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Moreš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Möres, Morés

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Morés

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Móres, Möres

37 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mores is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, plural of mora (“delay; mora”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōs

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, genitive singular of mōr

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Pasquale Mores, b. 1873Harald Mores, b. 1886Antonín Mores, b. 1908Claudia Mores, b. 1950Pierre Mores, b. 1950Francesco Mores, b. 1978Aldo Mores, b. 1982Melina Mores, b. 1982

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 29 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Mores
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.4K#2,134
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020485#47,189
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000457#44,350
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010422#49,723
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008174#9,632
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196152—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202146#13,997
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192135—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202134—

Reference works 5

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 Mores mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Maurits (see Morris). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mores have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Mores, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mores.
How common is the name Mores?
In Brazil, the national register counted 5,366 people named Mores, about 1 in 39 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, “Mores”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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