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The malin Surname

malin Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the medieval female personal name Malin, a diminutive of Mall.
  2. French and Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Madalin, a short form of compound names with the initial element madal ‘council’.
  3. Serbian: patronymic from maly, Serbian mali ‘small’; compare Maly.
  4. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Male (a back-formation from Malka as if it contained the Slavic diminutive suffix -ke) + the Slavic metronymic suffix -in.
  5. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Malin, a place in Ukraine.

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Distribution of malin Families in the US in 1920
Number of malin families
 44-86
 15-43
 1-14
 0
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