French: from a pet form of the personal name Malo (see
Malo 1).French: variant of Malette.French,
Catalan and English: from French, English, and Catalan mallet
‘hammer’, Old French ma(i)let, diminutive of ma(i)l
(Latin malleus) either a metonymic occupational name for a
smith, or possibly a nickname for a fearsome warrior.French and English: nickname for an unlucky person, from Old
French maleit ‘accursed’ (Latin maledictus, the opposite
of benedictus ‘blessed’).English: from the medieval female
personal name Malet, a diminutive of Mal(le) (see
Mall).English: variant of Mallard 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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