Meril: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Clerks wrote Merrill in many ways, and Meril is one that stuck. The family name meaning is “From Muriel”, the same as for Merrill.

A variant of Merrill

Before spelling was fixed, Merrill was also written Meril. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Merrel and Merrell.

Surname statistics

French birth records list 576 children named Meril between 1891 and 2000. There were 23 such births in the 1890s and 78 in the 1990s.

Family crest and blazon

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