What nationality is muroff?

Question

What nationality is muroff?

Answer 1

You can't be sure of the nationality of any name.

Expanding on the first answer.. you have to have some awareness of the political issues about many East European countries, but ESPECIALLY in the area of Poland, Russia and Germany.

The place of origin for many immigrants is shown in census records. My ancestry comes from what is NOW Poland, and they spoke Polish. At the time of their birth, however, there WAS no Poland.. it was under the control of various surrounding countries due to partitioning. Thus.. they were technically born in Germany, which was in control at the time they were born. It did not mean that they were of German heritage.

Thus.. Muroff CAN be a named related to Russia (or perhaps more exactly, any of the different countries/ localities (ie Ukraine).. but that does not mean that they could not have migrated into Poland, and immigrated to the US from there.

You cannot always assign any "nationality" to a name, because it fluctuates. It is more accurate to locate your actual ancestor named Muroff, and use valid documents to determine the town/village, etc that they actually came from.

Answer 2

Murov, I believe, is a Russian name.