Merton: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Irish : Bright sea
French : Famous
English : From the farm by the sea

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English : habitational name from places called Merton in London, Devon, Norfolk, and Oxfordshire, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Compare Marton, Martin 2.

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