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Question: Does anybody know the ethnicity of my last name, Mohr!.!?
Like where it came from, what it means, something!.
I've been searching, but none of the websites i've tried
have had that name on their databases!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
North German: topographic name for someone who lived in a fen, Middle Low German mor!.
German and Dutch: nickname for a man of swarthy complexion, from Middle High German mor, Middle Dutch mo(e)r ‘Moor’!.
German: from a short form of an old personal name, Morhart (see Morath)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

German, I would think!. Www@QuestionHome@Com