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The maitland Surname

maitland Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: of uncertain origin, possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman French maltalent, mautalent ‘bad temper’ (Late Latin malum ‘bad’ + talentum ‘inclination’, ‘disposition’). However, there is a place called Mautalant in Pontorson, France, which was named for its unproductive soil, and this may well be a partial source of the surname, particularly in Scotland where many historical examples of the name are written with the preposition de. The present spelling is the result of a contracted pronunciation and folk etymological identification with the common topographic element land.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of maitland Families in the US in 1920
Number of maitland families
 27-51
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Ruth Maitland ( Alphonso Lutz ) Lighthouse92 7
Maitlands of Jamaica England Antony Maitland 4
Maitland/Midtylland timmaitland1 0
Robert Maitland Jimmy Adkins 3
John MAITLAND and his daughters suedonlea 6
Maitland DNA maitlenwright07 4
Aberdeen Maitland Ancestors smaitlan1 3
Christina Maitland in Canada? Scott Maitland 5
Clan Maitland - Expression of interest. jecraig2006 11
Ann Maitland B1848 Kent England Andrew Jones 2
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