Entry № 6993 · Scottish Gaelic origin

Morag Morag — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOR-ag /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Meaning
"Great, sun"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish Gaelic)

A name that means "great, sun".

Morag is a Scottish Gaelic name from mòr, meaning "great" — or possibly related to Mary. Morag is also the local name given to the legendary monster of Loch Morar (the lesser-known cousin of Nessie).

Morag is widely used in Scotland.

Great. The Scottish Highland name.

The name in its native script.

Mòrag
Transliteration
Mòrag
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɔːr.æɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Morag stands.

Morag does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Morags before her.

Real people
Morag McLaren
Scottish opera singer.
In fiction
Morag Gunn
Heroine of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners.
1974 novel

Names connected to Morag.

The number behind Morag.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Morag reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.