as a Last Name
- 2,432
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Mort
Meaning & Origins
English (Lancashire): of uncertain origin. The most plausible suggestion is that it is a Norman nickname from Old French mort ‘dead’ (Latin mortuus), presumably referring to a person of deathly pallor or unnaturally still countenance, or possibly to someone who played the part of death in a pageant. However, it could also be the result of survival into the Middle English period of an Old English personal name, Morta, or an Old English vocabulary word mort ‘young salmon or trout’, both postulated by Ekwall to explain various place names (see for example Morcom).
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,432
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Mort per capita
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