Mallo Family History
Mallo Name Meaning
Italian (Sicily): from Italian mallo ‘soft blanket’ Sicilian maddu (from Latin mallus ‘tuft of wool’ from Greek mallos ‘fleece’) presumably a nickname for someone with curly hair. Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from a place called Mallo in León (probably from mallo ‘threshing flail mallet’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022