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malay Name Meaning and History

French (Walloon): according to Debrabandere, a Walloon variant of Mala(he), a nickname for a difficult, clumsy or maladroit person, from French malaise ‘illness’, ‘sickness’; ‘awkward’, ‘clumsy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of malay Families in the US in 1920
Number of malay families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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