Girl name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : Bitter; rebellion
- Old Welsh : Protector of the sea
- Middle English : Mirthful, joyful
Girl name variations
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old Welsh : Protector of the sea
How Popular Is The Name Merry
Family 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.