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male Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a virile man, from Middle English male ‘masculine’ (Old French masle, madle, Latin masculus).
  2. Belgian (van Male): habitational name from any of a number of places in Flanders named Male.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of male Families in the US in 1920
Number of male families
 62-122
 21-61		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 53 - Messages: 156
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Male Barrington Som connection j_pidgeon 2
Ilminster Male Family EPatterson4566 3
leslie donald male Clare260 0
info Mary Male wolf 2
Malachi Male stevepmale 0
Uriah Male from Somerset b. 1810 stevepmale 0
Cornelius Male - died 1892 - Ohio Lace_Lynch 1
Obit. Vernon J. MALE (1908 - 2007) b. Athens County, Ohio Lace_Lynch 1
hoping to make contact Penny Darline Stanley 3
charles george male male 5
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