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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of French Maillou, a dialect form of Maillot ‘big mallet’. Compare Maillet. Sometimes Anglicized as Mayhew.
  • A Mailloux from the Saintonge region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1670.

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