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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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