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Meaning & Origins
From the Latin word meaning ‘glory’, not used as a given name before the 20th century. It first occurs as the name of a character in George Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell (1898), and was fairly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
| 112th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: 1. topographic name for someone who lived by a pond, Old English mere. 2. topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, Old English (ge)mǣre.
| 3,309th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Glory, Glori, Glorie, Glora, Glor, Glorya, Glorai, Glorea, Glorio, Gloree
Merrick, Meares, Meers, Mearns, Meara, Merricks, Mearidy, Mear, Mearkle, Meardy
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