Last name: MERRIAM
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MERRIAM : This last name is indexed 33,891 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MERRIAM : English: habitational name from an unidentified place called Meryham apparently in east Sussex but now lost. The placename may derive from Old English myrig ‘merry pleasant’ + hām ‘village homestead’ or hamm ‘water meadow’.
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