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Morris

Morris is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.

EtymologyVariant of Maurice
LatinLatin "Mauritius" – "dark-skinned, Moor"
Births by decade
1900s
2,059
1910s
12,549
1920s
14,247
1930s
9,202
1940s
8,880
1950s
8,392
1960s
5,392
1970s
2,811
1980s
1,980
1990s
1,287
2000s
994
2010s
795
Peaked in the 1920s · 68,588 total U.S. births since 1900