Submitted Name Save Gender Feminine Usage Ancient Germanic, History Edit Status Status [history·contributorshide contributors] Added 7/23/2007 by Lucille Edited 2/2/2008 by Lucille Meaning & History Derived from Old High German mâri "famous" combined with flâdi "beauty, respectability." Merofleda was one of the wives of Charibert I, a 6th-century Merovingian king of Paris.