Mortymer Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

The same name, two spellings: Mortymer and Mortimer.

Its meaning, shared with Mortimer, is “Dead sea (marsh)”. Only a small detail separates the spellings: Mortymer has “y” where Mortimer has “i”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Mortimor and Mortimore.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Mortimer and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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