Boy name origins & meanings Irish : Bright seaFrench : FamousEnglish : From the farm by the sea Boy name variations Merrill Merral Meril Merrel Meryl Myrl Myril Merle Merrick Mert Mertan Merten Mertin Murton Family name origins & meanings English : habitational name from places called Merton in London, Devon, Norfolk, and Oxfordshire, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Compare Marton, Martin 2.
