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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : perhaps from an unattested Latin word malaria ‘apple tree’.
  • Spanish : habitational name from either of two places named Malara, both in Málaga province.
  • Polish : occupational name from a derivative of malarz ‘painter’.

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