Merle Family History
- Merle Name Meaning
- German and French: nickname, possibly for a good or habitual singer or whistler, from Middle High German, Old French merle ‘blackbird’ (Latin merula). See Merlo. German: from a pet form of a short form of a personal name formed with German mar, mer ‘famous’ as the first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 73,753 Historical Documents with Merle on Ancestry
- 41,012 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,591 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,711 Military Records
- 2,893 Immigration Records
- 18,546 Member Trees
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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