as a Last Name
- 138,945
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Moreno
Meaning & Origins
Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): nickname for someone with dark hair and a swarthy complexion, from Spanish and Portuguese moreno ‘dark-haired’, a word of uncertain origin, probably from Late Latin maurinus, a derivative of classical Latin Maurus ‘Moor’. Compare Moore 2.
| 213th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 138,945
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Texas
- has the most people named Moreno per capita
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