English: habitational name from any of several places so
called, principally in Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, and North
Yorkshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from
mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tun
‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from
(ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tun ‘settlement’). Compare
Martin 2.Hungarian (Márton): from the Hungarian
personal name Márton (see Martin 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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