Demery Family History

Altered form of Demaree, a surname of French origin or ultimately perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) surname. The surname Demery, which is most common among African Americans, may alternatively be of English origin (see 2 and 3 below).

Compare Demory English (of French Huguenot origin): probably an Anglicized form of French Deméré De Méré, a habitational name with fused preposition de ‘from’ denoting someone from any of several places called Méré (in Indre-et-Loire, Yvelines, and Yonne).

English (of Norman origin): variant of Damery.