Merry Family History
Merry Name Meaning
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’ +
ric ‘power’; ‘ruler’.French: habitational name from
Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name
Matrius + the suffix -acum.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Merry Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Merry families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Merry families
|
194 - 386 65 - 193 |
1 - 64 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Merry families
|
61 - 120 21 - 60 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Merry Family Origin
Merry Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Merry
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Merry Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Merry census records
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Merry Civil War Service Records
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