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Meredith

Name origin: Old Welsh

Name meaning: Protector of the sea

Monk

Name origin: English

Name meaning: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Middle English munk, monk ‘monk’ (Old English munuc, munec, from Late Latin monachus, Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, a derivative of monos ‘alone’).

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