Meriwether — Family Name, Records and Arms

The last name Meriwether is another written form of Merriweather, a well-known English family name. The family name meaning is “A gay, blithe or agreeable person”, the same as for Merriweather.

Meriwether and Merriweather

Records show Meriwether as one of the forms Merriweather took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Merriwether and Merryweather.

How common is Meriwether?

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Meriwether with 1,942 bearers, at rank 15,171.

Heraldry and the Meriwether name

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