Morelos Family History

Hispanic: (mainly Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines): probably an altered form of Galician Mourelos, itself a habitational name from any of several places called Mourelos in Galicia, Spain (named with a derivative of pre-Latin mor ‘stone’) or the plural form of Mourelo, which is probably a nickname from a diminutive of mouro ‘Moor’.

(Mexico): habitational name from Morelos, the name of a state in Mexico named in honor of José María Morelos y Pavón (1765–1815), one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence movement.