Mervyn

Welsh

"sea hill"

Mervyn Origin and Meaning

The name Mervyn is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "sea hill".

Terminally outmoded.

Mervyn Rank in US Top 1000

# 999 in the US

Famous People Named Mervyn

• Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin Jr. American television host, musician, singer, actor, and media mogul
• Mervyn LeRoy American film director
• Mervyn King English darts player
• Mervyn Laurence Peake English novelist and artist
• Mervyn Allister King Baron King of Lothbury, Governor of the Bank of England
• Mervyn Gordon Rose Australian tennis player
• Mervyn Malcolm Dymally U.S. Congressman from California
• Mervyn Johns Welsh actor
• Mervyn Edwin Warren American composer
• Mervyn Touchet 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, notoriously executed for sodomy in 1631

The name Mervyn in Pop Culture

• Mervyn Phillips school friend to Huw Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley" (1939) by Richard Llewellyn
• Mervyn's former department store chain
• Sir Mervyn character in video game 'Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past'