The Mure Family Name

Mure is a branch of the Muir name tree. The name is generally explained as “Moor, heath”. Mure is listed among the recognised spellings of Muir. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

In the Spanish register, Mure appears 71 times as a first surname and 72 times as a second one. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. According to the 2010 US Census, the Mure surname had 287 bearers. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: More.

Arms linked to Muir and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Mure family name pack.