English (southern Lancashire): habitational name from a minor
place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere
‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated
land’. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.Dutch: habitational name from Maarland in Eijsden, Dutch
Limburg.possibly a variant of Dutch Merlan, from French
merlan ‘whiting’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman
or seller of these fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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