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merrick Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: from the Welsh personal name Meurig, a form of Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).
  2. English: from an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, composed of the Germanic elements meri, mari ‘fame’ + ric ‘power’.
  3. Scottish: habitational name from a place near Minigaff in the county of Dumfries and Galloway, so called from Gaelic meurach ‘branch or fork of a road or river’.
  4. Irish: when not Welsh or English in origin, probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh (see Merry).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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merrick Family Facts

Distribution of merrick Families in the US in 1920
Number of merrick families
 90-178
 31-89		 1-30
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