Merle (name)
Merle is a male or female first name or family name.
Origin and use of the name
The first name Merle is derived from the Irish name Muriel or the surname Merrill , both of which are another form of "Muirgel" and mean bright or shining sea. The name was influenced in the spelling and interpretation by the French word "merle", which means blackbird . Since the 1980s, the first name Merle has enjoyed growing and lasting popularity in Germany. Merle also serves as a short form for the first name Merlinde.
Name bearer
First name
- Merle Barth (* 1994), German soccer player
- Merle Collet (* 1986), German actress, presenter and author
- Merle Dandridge (* 1975), American actress and singer
- Merle Frohms (* 1995), German soccer goalkeeper
- Merle Haggard (1937-2016), American country musician
- Merle Hoch (* 1982), German musical actress
- Merle Jääger (* 1965), Estonian actress and poet
- Merle Kilgore (1934-2005), American composer, lyricist, country singer and manager
- Merle Kröger (* 1967), German crime novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker and producer
- Merle Louise (born 1934), American actress
- Merle Montgomery (1904–1986), American composer, pianist and music teacher
- Merle Moult (1924-2004), Zambian badminton and tennis player
- Merle Oberon (1911–1979), British actress
- Merle Greene Robertson (1913–2011), American American scholar
- Merle Rubin (1949–2006), American literary critic and science journalist
- Merle Travis (1917–1983), American country musician and songwriter
- Merle Antony Tuve (1901–1982), American physicist and geophysicist
- Merle Viirmaa (* 1974), Estonian biathlete
- Merle Wasmuth (* 1988), German actress
- Merle Weidt (* 1999), German volleyball player
family name
- Audrey Merle (* 1995), French triathlete
- Carole Merle (* 1964), French ski racer
- Célia Merle (* 1999), French triathlete
- Christian Albert Anton von Merle (1693–1765), from 1734 to 1765 auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Worms and titular bishop of Sinope
- Clemens August von Merle (1732–1810), auxiliary bishop of Cologne
- Eugène Merle (1884–1946), French publisher
- Frank Merle (* 1962), French mathematician
- Hugues Merle (1823–1881), French painter
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794–1872), Swiss Reformed theologian and church historian
- Kristin Merle (* 1974), German Protestant theologian and pastor
- Maurice Merle (1945–2003), French jazz saxophonist and composer
- Michael Merle , German local politician
- Michel Merle , French mathematician
- Pierre Hugues Victoire Merle (1766-1830) French general
- Robert Merle (1908-2004), French writer
- Vincent de Paul Merle (1768-1853), French Trappist and founder of a monastery, who worked in Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Keyword "Merle". In: Behind the Name. The etymology and history of first names.
- ↑ Keyword "Merrill". In: Behind the Name. The etymology and history of first names.
- ^ Keyword "Muriel". In: Behind the Name. The etymology and history of first names.
- ↑ Keyword "Muirgel". In: Behind the Name. The etymology and history of first names.
- ↑ Keyword "Merle". In: Popular-vornamen.de, hit lists of the most popular first names - for every age group from 1890 to 2011