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Morton
Morton m
1 English: transferred use of the surname, originally a local name derived from any of the numerous places so called from Old English mōrtūn ‘settlement by or on a moor’.
2 Jewish: adopted as an Anglicized form of MOSES (SEE Moses) (cf. MORRIS (SEE Morris)).
Short form (mainly U.S.): Mort.

First names dictionary. 2012.