Marcelino Mora was christened on 17 June 1870, in Calcha, Vitichi, Nor Chichas, Potosí, Bolivia as the son of Grabriel Mora and Manuela Osca.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Manuel, Carlos, Jorge, Miguel, Jesus, Francisco, Roberto, Mario, Pedro. Portuguese Ligia, Lidio.
Spanish and Portuguese; Catalan (also Móra): topographic name for someone who lived where mulberries grew, from mora ‘mulberry’ (from Late Latin mora, originally the plural of Latin morum); or a habitational name from any of the places called (La) Mora, for example in the Spanish provinces of Albacete, León, Navarre, and Toledo. Compare Spanish De la Mora 1 and Lamora .
French (southern); Catalan (Morà): from a short form of the medieval Latin personal name Morandus (see Morand 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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