The Morland Family Name

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Morland usually leads back to Moreland. The name is generally explained as “moorland”. Without the “e” of Moreland, Morland is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

901 Americans were listed as Morland in the 2010 census. Between 1891 and 2000, 510 babies born in France were registered as Morland, with the most births in 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

Arms linked to Moreland and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Morland report, with a museum-style coat of arms.