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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: occupational name for a watchman, Anglo-Norman French waite (of Germanic origin; compare Wachter), or from the same word in its original abstract/collective sense, ‘the watch’. There may also have been some late confusion with White.
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Nicknames & variations
Merl, Merla, Merly, Merlie, Merli, Merlee, Merley, Merlo, Merlia, Merlea
White, Whitt, Watt, Waits, Waites, Wait, Waiters, Whitty, Waithe, Waitt
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