The male Surname

male Name Meaning and History

English: nickname for a virile man, from Middle English male ‘masculine’ (Old French masle, madle, Latin masculus).
Belgian (van Male): habitational name from any of a number of places in Flanders named Male.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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male Family Facts

Distribution of male Families in the US in 1920

Number of male families

62-122

21-61

1-20

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 53 - Messages: 158

Thread	Author	Replies
Male Family in N.Y. Canada	Nancie male	2
Male Barrington Som connection	j_pidgeon	3
Ilminster Male Family	EPatterson4566	3
leslie donald male	Clare260	0
info	Mary Male wolf	2
Malachi Male	stevepmale	0
Uriah Male from Somerset b. 1810	stevepmale	0
Cornelius Male - died 1892 - Ohio	Lace_Lynch	1
Obit. Vernon J. MALE (1908 - 2007) b. Athens County, Ohio	Lace_Lynch	1
hoping to make contact	Penny Darline Stanley	3

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