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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, originally a local name for someone who lived in a dale or valley. It is now fairly commonly used as a given name, along with other monosyllabic surnames of topographical origin (see for example Dell and Hale).
| 185th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: from Middle English more ‘moor’, ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘area of uncultivated land’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place or a habitational name from any of the various places named with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
| 14th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Daley, Dalee, Dalea, Daleah, Dalei, Daleo, Dalia, Daleya, Dayle, Dahlia
Morrow, Mohr, Moorman, Moorehead, Moorer, Moorhead, Moores, Moor, Mowry, Moorefield
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