Morona

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries

/muɾonɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Morona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 279K(measured from records)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 171K
  • ESSpain1 in 794K

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)

758 people

Record sources
45 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moroña in BO Bolivia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Morona 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 Morona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil7581 in 279K758Morona45
PH Philippines≈75 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Morona15
BO Bolivia≈68 est.≈1 in 171K—Moroña10
ES Spain631 in 794K63Morona15
IT Italy≈52 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Morona1

758 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Morona is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Moroña

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines

    Also written Moroña

  • Arabic name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Moroña

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Moroña

27 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)

Morona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, dative singular of moron

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

  • In Malagasy, brink

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

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Argentīnā ("Moron"), Buenosaires pilsētas rajons, kas agrāk bija atsevišķa pilsēta, ~500000 iedzīvotāju (1975. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, upe Ķīnā, Cjinhai provinces dienvidrietumu daļā, arī Sičuaņas un Juņnaņas prrovincē, Jandzi augštece

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Kubā ("Moron"), Sjego de Avilas provincē, 53600 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.)

    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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalPrezado(a) Morona,Dear Morona, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Morona,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Morona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—758#11,779
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—63#37,941
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—63#37,783

Reference works 1

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

How do you pronounce Morona?
A machine transcription gives /muɾonɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Morona have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 758 people named Morona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morona.
How common is the name Morona?
In Brazil, the national register counted 758 people named Morona, about 1 in 279 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, “Morona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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