Mortimor as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mortimor

What is the meaning of the name Mortimor ?

The baby name Mortimor is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced MOR-ti-mor (IPA: /ˈmɔːr.tɪ.mɔːr/).

Mortimor is English in Origin.

Mortimor is a rare orthographic variant of Mortimer, a Norman toponymic surname turned given name. It descends from the Norman French place-name Mortemer in Seine-Maritime. The elements are Old French mort, "dead" (from Latin mortuus), and mere/mer, "pond, lake" (related to Germanic mere), yielding the sense of "stagnant pool," "still water," or "dead water."

Carried to England after the Conquest, the name is bound to the powerful Mortimer dynasty, Marcher Lords of Wigmore; Roger Mortimer, de facto ruler in the 1320s, fixed it in British history. As a forename it rose in the 18th–19th centuries, then faded. Variants include Mortimer (standard), Mortimor and Mortimore (English spellings), and Mortemer (French); diminutives are Mort and Morty. Literature and stage kept it recognizable - from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend (Mortimer Lightwood) to the farcical hero Mortimer Brewster - lending an urbane, old-world tone.

⚙ Mortimor is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mortimor appears only 2 times in total — found in 2 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.