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.
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