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Morris

Pronounced /ˈmɔɹɪs/

Rank in 2024
#1,862
Born in 2024
86
Peak year
1918 · #101
Origin
Old French

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 86 boys were named Morris, about 1 in every 19,946.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 1,679 babies, ranked #101.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 70,909 boys have been named Morris since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Morris per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.6
    Greatest
  2. 0.8
    Silent
  3. 0.4
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 26,275 babies, 1.57 per 1,000. Silent: 16,573 babies, 0.80 per 1,000. Boomers: 15,041 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,218 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,743 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,578 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,190 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.

  • (countable) A male given name.
  • A male given name from Old French, a medieval form of French Maurice.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Old French
Say it
/ˈmɔɹɪs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Morris, CC BY-SA 4.0.