The Mallen Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

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Family name meaning

Anyone researching Mallen should also look under Mallin. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “A descendant of little Mall, a pet form of Mary (bitterness)”.

Mallen writes “e” in place of the “i” found in Mallin, a common scribal difference. In Spain, the INE population register lists 1,662 people with Mallen as their first surname and 1,553 as their second. French civil records give 608 births under the name Mallen from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960.

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