Morag:
Morag (Scottish Gaelic: Mòrag) is a Scottish Gaelic feminine name. It's related to the name Mór, which means "great" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and is considered a diminutive form of that name. It's a traditional Scottish name derived from the Gaelic word mór, meaning "great" or "large," popular in Scotland since the 20th century and also used in other English-speaking countries. thebumpnameplay
A few extra wrinkles turn up in the sources:
Some sources give the meaning as "from the great ridge," derived from the Gaelic words "muir" (sea) and a second element. namecensus
Manx connection: In Manx, Morag is a female given name equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Mòrag, and is also used as a translation of the name Sarah. Traditionally on the Isle of Man it was Anglicized as "Sarah," despite there being no real etymological link between the two names. neonvagabondnameplay
Disputed Hebrew link: Some sources claim a connection to the Hebrew name Sarah ("princess"), treating Morag as a Gaelic form of it — and a separate, less common theory ties it to a Hebrew word for "bitter," via association with the name Marion. Take this one with a grain of salt — it reads like folk etymology layered on top of the genuine Manx-Sarah pairing above. nameplay
Pronunciation: roughly MOR-ag or MOH-rahk, depending on source.
Morag is the nickname of a lake monster believed by many to live in Loch Morar, Scotland — after Nessie, it's the most written-about of Scotland's legendary monsters. The name is a pun on the name of the loch, and reported sightings date back to 1887, numbering 34 incidents by 1981, sixteen with multiple witnesses. The best-known claim came from August 1969, when two local men, Duncan McDonell and William Simpson, said they accidentally struck the creature with their boat, provoking it to attack. They described it as brown, 25–30 feet long, with rough skin, three dorsal humps rising 18 inches above the surface, and a foot-wide head held 18 inches out of the water — McDonell fended it off with an oar while Simpson opened fire with a rifle, after which it sank from sight. Morag (lake monster) +2
Morag MacLeod (b. 1936, Scalpay) — a Gaelic-speaking fieldworker and academic, one of the most influential figures in Scottish Studies of the late 20th/early 21st century; joined the School of Scottish Studies as a text transcriber in 1962 and stayed nearly 37 years, doing major work on the Tobar an Dualchais folklore/song archive. tobarandualchais
Morag McNeill (1951–2019) — a Glasgow-area landlady and Justice of the Peace who, from 2007, housed more than 100 Rangers Academy youth footballers at her guest house, and separately served on the Children's Panel in West Dunbartonshire from 1997 and as a JP in Glasgow from 2010–2017. scotsman
Morag Shepherd — Scottish playwright.
Morag McLellan — Scottish field hockey player.
Morag McLaren — Scottish singer.
Morag Beaton — Scottish-Australian soprano.
Historical Hebridean women recorded as "Morag" as a nickname for Marion — e.g. Marion MacLeod (1901–1974) and Marion "Morag" MacKillop (b. 1911), both from Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, per local genealogical archives.
Megan and Morag — the sheep that were the first mammals cloned from differentiated adult cells (the same Roslin Institute program that produced Dolly). wikipedia
Morag also shows up as: Morag Bellingham (Home and Away), Mòrag Ladair (Xenoblade Chronicles 2), Morag the Tulgah Witch (Ewoks animated series), the main antagonist of The Loud House Movie, a character in the Star Trek: TNG episode "Aquiel," and the planet Morag in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame). The Morag Tong is also a faction in the video game Morrowind. Separately, Morąg (Mohrungen) is a city in Poland, and Morag was a former Israeli settlement in Gush Katif. wikipedia