Mervyn
Mervyn is a masculine given name and occasionally a surname. It is an Anglicized form of the Welsh name Merfyn, which contains the Old Welsh elements mer, probably meaning "marrow", and myn, meaning "eminent".[1]
| Gender | Masculine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Welsh |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Mervin, Merfyn, Merwin (name), Marvin (name) |
People with the given name
- Mervyn or Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd (c. 825-844)
- Mervyn Archdall (disambiguation), various persons
- Mervyn S. Bennion (1887–1941), US Navy captain killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
- Mervyn Carrick (born 1946), Northern Ireland politician
- Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch (born 1952), former banker and UK government minister
- Mervyn Davies (1946–2012), Welsh former rugby union player
- Mervyn Day (born 1955), English former football goalkeeper
- Mervyn Dillon (born 1974), West Indian cricketer
- Mervyn M. Dymally (born 1926), American politician, first Trinidadian Lieutenant Governor of California
- Mervyn Fernandez (born 1959), former National Football League and Canadian Football League wide receiver
- Merv Griffin (1925-2007), American singer, television host and media mogul
- Merv Harvey (1918–1995), Australian cricketer
- Mervyn Hill (1902–1948), Welsh cricketer
- Mervyn Johns (1899–1992), Welsh film and television actor
- Mervyn King (economist) (born 1948), British economist, Governor of the Bank of England
- Mervyn King (judge), former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance
- Mervyn King (darts player) (born 1966), British darts player
- Mervyn King (bowls) (born 1966), English bowls player
- Mervyn Kitchen (born 1940), English former first-class cricketer and international umpire
- Mervyn LeRoy (1900–1987), American film director, producer and sometime actor
- Mervyn Middlecoat (1940–1971), Pakistan Air Force wing commander
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator, best known for his Gormenghast series
- Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike (1918–2004), British politician
- Mervyn Rose (born 1930), Australian tennis player
- Mervyn Silva (born 1944), controversial Sri Lankan politician
- Mervyn Spence (born 1965-6), Northern Irish musician
- Mervyn Stockwood (1913–1995), Anglican Bishop of Southwark
- Mervyn Taylor (born 1931), Irish former politician
- Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593–1631), convicted rapist and sodomite
- Mervyn Warren (born 1964), American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist
- Mervyn Wood (1917–2006), Australian rower
- Merv Hughes Aussie Cricketer
Fictional characters
- Mervyn Bunter, a butler in Dorothy Sayers' stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
- Mervyn, Sheriff of Rottingham, a comedy version of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
People with the surname
- Audley Mervyn (1603?–1675), lawyer and politician in Ireland
- William Mervyn (1912–1976), English actor
See also
- Mervyn's, a defunct American department store chain
- Mervin (disambiguation)
- Merwin (disambiguation)
References
- Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1992) [1990]. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 235. ISBN 0192116517.
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