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merry Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for someone with a blithe or happy disposition, from Middle English merry ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’ (Old English myr(i)ge ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’).
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh, Ó Meardha ‘descendant of Mearadhach’, ‘descendant of Meardha’, personal names derived from an adjective meaning ‘lively’, ‘wild’, ‘wanton’.
  3. French: from a vernacular form of the personal name Médéric, derived from a Germanic personal name conposed of mecht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + ric ‘power’; ‘ruler’.
  4. French: habitational name from Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name Matrius + the suffix -acum.

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

Distribution of merry Families in the US in 1920
Number of merry families
 50-97
 17-49
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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