Marlett

Family name origins & meanings

• Americanized spelling of French Marlet or Merlet, a nickname from a diminutive of merle ‘blackbird’.
• Gideon Merlet from Roussy in Champagne, France, married Marguerite Martijn on 21 August 1644 at Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1662 they emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.