Italian (Sicily): from Italian mallo ‘soft blanket’
(from Latin mallus ‘tuft of wool’, from Greek mallos
‘fleece’). Caracausi believes the surname may have arisen as a
nickname for someone with curly hair.Asturian-Leonese:
habitational name from a place called Mallo in Lleón province,
Northwest Spain (probably from mallo ‘threshing flail’,
‘mallet’, or, alternatively, though less likely, from a pre-Roman
territorial name). DK. Probably not Galician - does not end in
-n.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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