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- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Merle Guy
Meaning & Origins
Probably a contracted form of Meriel, but also associated with the small class of girls' names derived from birds, since it is identical in form with Old French merle ‘blackbird’ (Latin merula). The name came to public notice in the 1930s with the actress Merle Oberon (1911–79, born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson).
| 1,005th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English (of Norman origin) and French: from a French form of the Germanic personal name Wido, which is of uncertain origin. This name was popular among the Normans in the forms Wi, Why as well as in the rest of France in the form Guy.
| 1,151st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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