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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of a surname, which is a form, altered by folk etymology, of the Old French nickname Gaillard ‘dandy’. It was adopted as a first name from the 19th century, but it now seems to have suffered the same fate as Gay (see Gaye).
| 3,426th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Scottish and northern English: habitational name from any of various places, notably in the Borders region and in Kinross, named Moreland, from Old English mōr ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + land ‘land’.
| 1,876th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Gaylard, Gaylerd, Gaylaird, Gaylurd, Gaylardo, Gaylars, Gaylaurd, Gayleard, Gaylorde, Gaylords
Moreno, Morey, Moreau, Morehead, Morehouse, Morel, Moreira, Morelli, More, Morell
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