Family name origins & meanings
- French : patronymic from Mory, a reduced form of Amory (see Emery).
- French : northern French habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from any of various places called Mory, in Oise, Pas-de-Calais, or Seine-et-Marne, the place name being derived from Latin Mauriacum (composed of a personal name Maurius + locative suffix -acum).