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Merry (female)

Variants:Meri (F)
Pet Name for:Mercy (F)
Derivative of:Mercy (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

English, originally believed to be a pet name for Mercy [see Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit] but now a given name related to the adjective "merry".
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