The Mort surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,762 people carried this name — #11,411 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 106,400 people counted. That is up 8% from 2,556 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Mort surname
Shortening.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mort» (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 114 people named Mort.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Somme.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
179 people named Mort are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Mort,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jacobus le Mort 1650–1718 · physician -
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort 1816–1878 · businessperson -
Henry Mort 1818–1900 · politician -
Eirene Mort 1879–1977 · educator -
Mary Mort 1726–1785
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Arthur Mort 1875–1948
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mort.
- Morosini 104 · U.S. census
- Moroz 1,434 · U.S. census
- Morra 1,175 · U.S. census
- Morreale 2,149 · U.S. census
- Morris 318,884 · U.S. census
- Morsch 533 · U.S. census
- Mortel 318 · U.S. census
- Mortier 415 · U.S. census
- Morton 59,213 · U.S. census
- Mortz 112 · U.S. census
- Moruzzi 243 · U.S. census
- Morvan 316 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Mort is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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