Merida

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Proper noun

  1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
    • The defendants, Leonard Morgan, Felix Forman, William Poe, Steve Forman and Jim Hatchett Baker, Merida Smith, Tine Williams and Bud Tegarden, composed the Poe crowd […] - 1920, Reports of civil and criminal cases...
    • Rachel Atkinson. […] Merida Smith. […] Nellie Myers. - 1951, Albert Ross Hogue, Mark Twain's Obedstown and Knobs of Tennessee: A History of Jamestown and Fentress County, Tennessee, page 79:
    • QUEEN ELINOR — Merida, a princess does not place her weapons on the table. - 2012, various authors, Brave (film), Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Origin

Uncertain. Possibly a coinage based on Mary, or transferred from the Spanish place name Mérida.

Related

Meredith Meridith

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A habitational surname.

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish Mérida.

Forms

Meridas