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Merry

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

1) Pet form of Mercy [1] [2]

2) Creative spelling of Mary [1] [3] [4] [2]

3) English merry = 'cheerful, jolly' [1], deriving from Old English myrige = 'pleasing, agreeable', from Ancient Germanic *murgijaz, which probably originally meant 'short-lasting' [5]

Related Names

Merri ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Merry ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Merrý ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Faroese

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Merry
Genitive: Merrys
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Merry
Genitive: Merrys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Merry
Genitive: Merrys

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
74 96 74 94 0 2
Denmark Denmark[7]
119
n.a.
 118
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
42
n.a.
 42
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 1 0 0
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Merry.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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