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Meri (F)>

Meri (female)

Variants:Merry (F)
Diminutive for:Merida (F)
   
Source(s):
Private communication [SE]
Notes:

A correspondent [SE] reports the use of this name in Canada for someone of Italian heritage.  Most websites suggest that it may be a local spelling of Merry, "cheerful". However, it could equally be an Italianate reference to one of the towns of Mérida in Spain, Mexico or Venezuela, from which the Spanish name Mérida is derived. The placename is from Latin "meritorious".