Mero Family History

Galician: topographic name from Mero, a river in Galicia (Spain). Spanish and Catalan: probably a nickname from mero ‘grouper’ (the fish). Alternatively, of the same origin as the Italian name in 3 below.

Italian: possibly from mero ‘pure, sheer’ (from Latin merus). Americanized form of French Amirault. Compare Meraw and Merrow. Americanized form of French Canadian Miron. Compare Merrow.

Breton (mainly Morbihan): variant of Le Mero, a diminutive of Le Mer ‘maire’ (see Lemer). Hungarian (Mérő): occupational name for someone who worked with scales from mérő ‘measure, measurer,’ a noun derivative of mérni ‘to measure’.

Albanian: from a pet form of the Muslim personal name Omer, of Turkish and ultimately of Arabic origin (see Omar).