The mero Surname
mero Name Meaning and History
- Galician: topographic name from Mero, a river in Galicia.
- Spanish and Catalan: probably a nickname from mero ‘grouper’ (the fish).
- Italian: possibly from mero ‘pure’, ‘sheer’ (Latin merus). Theoretically, this could also be a source of the Spanish name, but in any case it is difficult to explain its application.
- Hungarian (Méro): occupational name for someone who worked with scales, from méro ‘measure’, ‘measurer’, a noun derivative of mérni ‘to measure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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