SURNAME ORIGIN....is it true?

Origin Displayed: Spanish

Noble surnames, such as Morabito, evoke images of the ancient homeland of the Spanish people. The original bearer of the name Morabito, which is a local surname, once lived, held land, or was born in the beautiful region of Spain. This noble Spanish family lived near a mulberry or blackberry bush. Thus, Morabito is a topographic surname, which is the type of local surname that was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. The name was originally derived from the Spanish word "mora," which means "mulberry."
Spelling variations of this family name include: Morales, Moral, Morilla, Morillas, Moraleda and others.
First found in Castile, prominent among the Christian kingdoms of medieval Spain.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Among the early explorers of the New World was Andrés Morales (1477-1517), who accompanied Columbus on his third expedition to America in 1498. Other early settlers of the New World include Francisco de Mora, who emigrated to Peru in 1560 with his wife Luisa Jerónima.

SURNAME ORIGIN....continue...

Following other studies and researches, someone says instead that the surname Morabito comes from a Berber dynasty: the Almoravid dynasty.

Almoravides (In Arabic المرابطون al-Murabitun, sing. مرابط Murabit), was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that flourished over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the 11th century.

Under this dynasty the Moorish empire was extended over present-day Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Gibraltar, Tlemcen (in Algeria) and a great part of what is now Senegal and Mali in the south, and Spain and Portugal in the north.

The exact meaning of "Murabit" is still a matter of controversy. The name may not be derived from the Arabic ribat, or fortress (a term with which it shares the root r-b-t) as was the common opinion some time ago.

Morabito Family in the world.....

Have you ever tried to search your surname on Google and finding out there are a lot of people with your same name and surname? And then asking to yourself how he/she looks like, what he/she does?

I'm trying to find out how many Morabito are out there in the world....write down some comment and maybe add a photo of you and of your family...It could be a nice way to build up an extended, international and interesting community...