Entry № 7001 · Scottish origin

Morrison Morrison — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOR-uh-suhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Son of Maurice (Toni Morrison Nobel + Jim Morrison)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "son of maurice (toni morrison nobel + jim morrison)".

Morrison is a Scottish surname meaning son of Morris/Maurice — from the Latin mauritius (dark-skinned, Moorish).

Son of Maurice.

The name in its native script.

Morrison
Transliteration
Morrison
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɔːr.ɪ.sən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Morrison stands.

Morrison 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.

Morrisons before her.

Real people
Toni Morrison
American Nobel novelist.
1931 – 2019
Jim Morrison
American singer (The Doors).
1943 – 1971
Van Morrison
Northern Irish singer-songwriter.
born 1945
In fiction
Morrison
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Morrison.

The number behind Morrison.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Morrison reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.