Meredith

plural Merediths · alternative Merrihew

1. countableuncountableA male given name from Welsh.

   What was his name now? Literary sort of name - I've got it. Meredith. Meredith Blake. Don't know whether he's alive or not.

   1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26

2. countableuncountableA female given name from Welsh; sometimes mistaken for a combination of Mary and Edith.

   "What did I hear you say her name was?" "Meredith. Mary and Edith. Names from both sides of the family." "Meredith," he repeated softly. "I like it."

   2004, Jo Goodman, Forever In My Heart, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 412

   2 more examples

   On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.

   2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017

   Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).

   2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025

3. countableuncountableA surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.
   2. countableuncountableA township in Cloud County, Kansas.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Clare County, Michigan.
   4. countableuncountableA town and census-designated place therein, in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
   5. countableuncountableA town in Delaware County, New York, named after Samuel Meredith.
   6. countableuncountableA township in Wake County, North Carolina, mostly occupied by portions of Raleigh.
5. countableuncountableA town in the Shire of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia.