Frequency: (2033)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: probably a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Emery, Morey).
FOREBEARS: Roger Mowry (c. 1612-66) emigrated from England to MA before 1634, when he married Mary Johnson in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA.
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