Maitland Family History
- Maitland Name Meaning
- Scottish and English: of uncertain origin, possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman French maltalent, mautalent ‘bad temper’ (Late Latin malum ‘bad’ + talentum ‘inclination’, ‘disposition’). However, there is a place called Mautalant in Pontorson, France, which was named for its unproductive soil, and this may well be a partial source of the surname, particularly in Scotland where many historical examples of the name are written with the preposition de. The present spelling is the result of a contracted pronunciation and folk etymological identification with the common topographic element land.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 268,706 Historical Documents with Maitland on Ancestry
- 69,911 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 58,258 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,940 Military Records
- 12,778 Immigration Records
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Number of Maitland families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Maitland families
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188 - 374 63 - 187 |
1 - 62 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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