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The malo Surname

malo Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from the personal name Malo, which was relatively popular in Brittany in the Middle Ages, having been borne by a 6th-century Welsh missionary to the area. His name is also recorded in the Latinized form Maclovius, and perhaps has some connection with Celtic megalos ‘chief’, ‘leader’.
  2. Spanish: nickname for an unpleasant individual, from Spanish malo ‘bad’, ‘evil’ (Latin malus).

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

Distribution of malo Families in the US in 1920
Number of malo families
 31-59
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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