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Merritt
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Origin Of The Surname Merritt
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Meaning Of The Surname Merritt
From the Town with the Border Gate
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Interesting
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Merritt
Merritt is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain such as Merriott. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘maere’ meaning border and ‘geat’ to mean ‘border gate’. |
Merritt Statistics
Merritt is the number 1197 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,247 share the surname Merritt in the UK.
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