Morel is a French surname meaning “dark”.
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Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 51.3% of all known bearers of the surname Morel were residents of France (frequency 1:719), 13.1% of Paraguay (1:306), 11.5% of the Dominican Republic (1:505), 7.4% of Argentina (1:3,188), 4.4% of the United States (1:45,440), 2.4% of Canada (1:8,346), 1.3% of Switzerland (1:3,389), 1.1% of Brazil (1:102,307) and 1.1% of Honduras (1:4,484).
In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:719) in the following regions:
Réunion (1:180)
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:389)
Normandy (1:408)
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:414)
Brittany (1:479)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1:582)
Hauts-de-France (1:586)
French Guiana (1:677)
In Paraguay, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:306) in the following departments:
Caazapá Department (1:158)
Paraguarí Department (1:182)
San Pedro Department (1:192)
Canindeyú Department (1:249)
Amambay Department (1:263)
People
Adéodat Compère-Morel, French politician
Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), French hispanist
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810–1871), French painter
Bénédict Morel (1809–1873), Austrian-French psychiatrist
Brent Morel (born 1987), American major league baseball player
Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer
Carlos Morel (1813–1894), Argentine painter
Carlos Morel (born 1987), Argentine footballer
Cecilia Morel (born 1954), former First Lady of Chile
Charlotte Morel (born 1972), professional French triathlete
Christopher Morel (born 1999), Dominican baseball player
Claire Morel (born 1984), French footballer
Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez, Paraguayan footballer
Clément Morel (born 1984), French tennis player
Clement or Clemens Morel (fl. 1534–1552), (probably a single) French composer
Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Franco-British journalist and politician
Edmund Morel (1840–1871), English-born railway engineer
Fictional characters
Morel, a character in the 1940 novel The Invention of Morel
Claudette Morel, a character in the 2016 online multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight