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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Marlett

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of French Marlet or Merlet, a nickname from a diminutive of merle ‘blackbird’.
  • Gideon Merlet from Roussy in Champagne, France, married Marguerite Martijn on 21 August 1644 at Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1662 they emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.

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