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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered spelling of Norwegian Mæ(h)lum, a habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway called Meðalheimr in Old Norse, i.e. ‘the farm’ (heimr) ‘in the middle’ (meðal).

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