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I don't think it works as a full name: perhaps because it's an adjective and virtue names tend to be nouns: Joy rather than Joyous, Hope rather than Hopeful. (OK, my daughter Beatrice bucks the trend, but in English anyway, there isn't a noun or an adjective in use that people could associate with Beatrice!) Or perhaps because I'm familiar with it in real life as a nn for Meredith (f) and in LOTR as a nn for Meriadoc (m).

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Are you thinking of Merry as male or female?