The Morain surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 536 people carried this name — #40,745 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (535).
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Morain surname
Borrowed from French Morain, a variant of Morin.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Morain» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 397 people named Morain.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 48 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Morain,
with a public archive behind them.
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Benoît Morain 1864–1938 · official -
Mary Morain 1911–1999 · author
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Pierre Morain 1930–2013 · activist
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Stanley A. Morain 1941–2025 · geographer
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Dominique Morain 1946– · visual artist
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Bernard Morain 1949– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Morain.
- Moos 1,821 · U.S. census
- Moquin 1,219 · U.S. census
- Mor 822 · U.S. census
- Mora 57,464 · U.S. census
- Morabito 2,678 · U.S. census
- Moraes 963 · U.S. census
- Moraine 158 · U.S. census
- Morais 3,381 · U.S. census
- Moral 653 · U.S. census
- Morales 311,777 · U.S. census
- Moran 88,615 · U.S. census
- Morana 281 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Morain is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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