The malin Surname
malin Name Meaning and History
- English: from the medieval female personal name Malin, a diminutive of Mall.
- French and Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Madalin, a short form of compound names with the initial element madal ‘council’.
- Serbian: patronymic from maly, Serbian mali ‘small’; compare Maly.
- 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.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Malin, a place in Ukraine.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Randal Malin's death date | Jayne MacKay | 16 |
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| MALIN-Delaware 1800's | Kathy Williams | 27 |
| Rev. Randall Malin, Quaker Martyr | J.A.L.Miller, Jr. | 2 |
| martin kinsley in stowell? |
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| margaret kinsley obituary 1938 |
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| catherine kinsley in wyalusing 1870 |
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| Thomas Malin, Birmingham, England |
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