Merriman Family History

English:: nickname from Middle English mirie merie murie ‘merry pleasant’ + man ‘man’. Compare Merry This surname is established in Ireland (perhaps as an Anglicized form of an unidentified Gaelic name; compare Marmion) as well as England.

There has probably been some confusion with Marriman probably an occupational name meaning ‘servant of Mary’ from the female personal name Mary (see Marie) + Middle English man in the sense ‘servant’.

Or perhaps a pet form of Mary using the hypocoristic suffix -man. The surname Marriman is now vanishingly rare in Britain and Ireland.