Morna
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Morna is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 41 | Morna | 10 |
| US United States | — | 326 | — | 157 |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 11 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Morna is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish and Scottish: variant of MYRNA . This is the name borne by Fingal's mother in the Ossianic poems of James Macpherson (cf. MALVINA ).
as a word
In English, A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, feminine singular of morno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, to dawn (become morning)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Ganhar
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
In Latvian, Kaboverdes tradicionālā mūzika, ostas krodziņu romance
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Álvaro de Freitas Mornab. 1885PTPortuguese politician
- Margarida Mornab. 1929PTPortuguese teacher and writer
- Morna Hookerb. 1931GBBritish theologian, Professor of Divinity
- Morna Livingstonb. 1941photographer
- Anne Murrayb. 1945CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer
- Erik Mornab. 1969EEEstonian journalist, music critic and DJ (born 1969)
- Morna Youngb. 1984playwright, screenwriter, journalist, actress, and musician
- Morna Nielsenb. 1990NZNew Zealand cricketer
- Morna WoodUSWyoming politician
- Morna CornellZAresearcher
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- In which country does Morna have the most bearers?
- Morna is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled morna.
What do you want to know about Morna?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mornaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Morna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.