"Traditional Spanish name"
The name Morelia is commonly a female name from the "Spanish" origin.
Morelia is the name of the capital city of Michoacan, Mexico. The city was renamed Morelia in 1828 in honor of the independence leader Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, and the personal name matches that place name rather than a Spanish common word, so it carries no lexical meaning beyond the city itself.
The pronunciation of Morelia is moh-REL-yuh.
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