Morel is a French surname meaning “dark”. It is also a Jewish surname most likely deriving from “Samuel”.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 51.3% of all known bearers of the surname Morel were residents of France (frequency 1:719), 13.1% of Paraguay (1:306), 11.5% of the Dominican Republic (1:505), 7.4% of Argentina (1:3,188), 4.4% of the United States (1:45,440), 2.4% of Canada (1:8,346), 1.3% of Switzerland (1:3,389), 1.1% of Brazil (1:102,307) and 1.1% of Honduras (1:4,484).
In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:719) in the following regions:
- 1. Réunion (1:180)
- 2. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:389)
- 3. Normandy (1:408)
- 4. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:414)
- 5. Brittany (1:479)
- 6. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1:582)
- 7. Hauts-de-France (1:586)
- 8. French Guiana (1:677)
In Paraguay, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:306) in the following departments:
- 1. Caazapá Department (1:158)
- 2. Paraguarí Department (1:182)
- 3. San Pedro Department (1:192)
- 4. Canindeyú Department (1:249)
- 5. Amambay Department (1:263)
People
- Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), French hispanist
- Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810–1871), French painter
- Bénédict Morel (1809–1873), Austrian-French psychiatrist
- Brent Morel (born 1987), American major league baseball player
- Camille de Morel (1547-1611), French poet and writer
- Carlos Morel (1813–1894), Argentine painter
- Carlos Morel (born 1987), Argentine footballer
- Cecilia Morel (born 1954), former First Lady of Chile
- Charlotte Morel (born 1972), professional French triathlete
- Christopher Morel (born 1999), Dominican baseball player
- Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez, Paraguayan footballer
- Clément Morel (born 1984), French tennis player
- Clement or Clemens Morel (fl. 1534–1552), (probably a single) French composer
- Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Franco-British journalist and politician
- Edmund Morel (1840–1871), English-born railway engineer
- Fernando Morel (born 1958), Argentine retired rugby union player
- François Morel (1926–2018), Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music educator
- François Morel (born 1959), French actor and filmmaker
- François M. M. Morel (born 1944), French-born biogeochemist
- Gaël Morel (born 1972), French film director
- Guillaume Morel (1505–1564), French classical scholar
- Guy Morel (1933–2006), Seychellois businessman
- Jean Baptiste Morel (1662–1732), Flemish painter
- Jean-Baptiste Morel (1854–1927), French politician
- Jérémy Morel (born 1984), French footballer
- Jorge Morel (1931–2021), Argentine classical guitarist and composer
- Juan Morel Campos (1857–1896), Puerto Rican composer
- Lely Morel (1909–2013), Argentine film actress
- Léonard Morel-Ladeuil (1820–1888), French goldsmith and sculptor
- Manuel Armoa Morel (born 2002), Argentine volleyball player
- Marie-Rose Morel (1972–2011), Belgian politician
- Martín Morel (born 1980), Argentine retired footballer
- Olivier Morel de La Durantaye (1640–1716), colonial officer in New France
- Pierre Morel (born 1964), French cinematographer and film director
- Richard Morel (fl. 1995– ), American singer, songwriter, remixer and record producer
- Salomon Morel (1919–2007), Polish-Jewish commander of the Zgoda concentration camp in Świętochłowice
- Sophie Morel (born 1979), French mathematician
- Sylvie Morel (born1956), Canadian wheelchair fencer
- Thierry Morel, French art historian and curator
- Tom Morel (1915-1944), French Resistance Fighter
- Yoryi Morel (1906–1979), painter from the Dominican Republic
Fictional characters
- Claudette Morel, a character in the 2016 online multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight
See also
References
- https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=morel
- Jarvis, Judith K.; Levin, Susan L.; Yates, Donald N. (10 May 2018). Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames. Panther`s Lodge Publishers. ISBN 978-1-9858-5656-1.
- Morel surname distribution
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