First name origins & meanings:
- Hebrew: Bitter; rebellion
- Old Welsh: Protector of the sea
- Middle English: Mirthful, joyful
- Old Welsh: Protector of the sea
First name variations: Mari, Marie, Maria, Miriam, Marian, Mame, Mamie, Maymie, Mayme, May, Mally, Molly, Polly, Mara, Maretta, Marel, Marella, Maren, Marlo, Mariette, Marieta, Meriel, Mimi, Minette, Minnie, Minny, Mitzi, Madonna, Marilla, Marla, Marya, Muriel, Manon, Manette, Marija, Marika, Maire, Mare, Marquita, Maure, Mairin, Mair, Maura, Maureen, Moira, Moire, Moya, Muire, Masha, Mairi, Mariya, Mashia, Mash, Mariath, Mary, Meridith, Meri, Meredith, Merri, Merrie, Merrilee, Merrily, Merrita, Merrielle, Meredith, Meridith, Meri, Merideth, Merydeth, Merydith, Merydyth, Meredith
Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for someone with a blithe or happy
disposition, from Middle English merry ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’
(Old English myr(i)ge ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’).
- 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’.
- French: from a vernacular form
of the personal name Médéric, derived from a Germanic
personal name conposed of mecht ‘strength’, ‘might’ +
rīc ‘power’; ‘ruler’.
- French: habitational name from
Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name
Matrius + the suffix -acum.
This name appears in the following lists:
Virtues