Mallet Family History
Mallet Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mallet
Name Distribution of Mallet Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mallet families
 78 - 154  27 - 77 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mallet families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mallet census records
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Mallet Family Origin
Mallet Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mallet Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mallet census records
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Military Service by Mallet
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