Merson
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Frequency: (495)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from a reduced form of Meyer 2, + German Sohn ‘son’.
2. French: metonymic occupational name for a trader, from Old French mers (Latin merx) ‘wares’, ‘merchandise’.
3. Scottish: probably a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Mary (see Marie).
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