Meret

Meret is a female given name and family name.

Origin and meaning of the name

• Danish / Swedish / Estonian and Sami short form for Margarete
• Swiss short form of Emerentia
• Goddess of Egyptian mythology, see Meret (Egyptian mythology) and part of the name of Egyptian names in the sense of "from ... beloved", see z. B. Meretseger , Meretnebty

variants

• Märet
• Merret
• Merit , Merrit , Merritt

name day

Emerentia's name day is on January 23rd.

Well-known namesake

• Meret Becker (* 1969), German actress
• Meret Burger (* 1975), German film director and producer
• Meret Engelhardt (* 1988), Austrian actress
• Meret Forster (* 1975), German music editor
• Meret Lüthi (* 1977 or 1978), Swiss classical violinist and concert master
• Meret Matter (* 1965), Swiss theater director
• Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-Swiss surrealist artist
• Meret Strothmann (* 1963), German ancient historian

Pseudonyms

• Meret Ammon; bourgeois Myriane Angelowski (* 1963), German author

family name

• Alex Meret (* 1997), Italian football player

literature

In his novel The Green Heinrich, Gottfried Keller tells in Chapter 5 of an unusual girl named Meretlein who suffered an early death due to the hard, religiously based “upbringing” of a clergyman. The actress and singer Meret Becker musically processed this story in her ballad vom Meretlein . The first name of Meret Oppenheim refers to this Meret .

See also

• Meritre Hatschepsut (also Merit-Re Hatschepsut or Hatschepsut Merit-Re), ancient Egyptian queen in the New Kingdom (18th Dynasty)
• Meritneith (also Merneith, Meret-Neith), ancient Egyptian queen of the 1st dynasty (early dynastic period)
• Mereret (also Meret or Meryt), ancient Egyptian king's daughter in the 12th Dynasty (Middle Kingdom)
• Meretseger (also Merit-seger, Meresger, Meretsegeret, Mert-sekert), ancient Egyptian goddess

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meret on nordicnames.de (English)
2. ↑ Meret on Popular-vornamen.de
3. ↑ on the CD: Otto Sander, Meret Becker, “nachtmahr”, see kunstgelage ( memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.