Given name & surname

Meres

Meres is a surname from German. It is used in Polish.

Original GermanMares

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Meres comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Polish usage, Meres as a surname is a diminutive of Mark.

Meres’s family of names

In Polish usage, Meres as a surname is a diminutive of Mark. In Polish usage, Meres as a surname was borrowed from the German form MARES.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

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