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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Malborough (Devon) or Marlborough (Wiltshire). The Wiltshire place name is from an unattested Old English personal name Mǣrla or Old English meargealla ‘gentian’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
  • Irish : possibly a variant of the County Clare surname Malborough, Marlborough, which MacLysaght considers to be probably an Anglicization of Gaelic Ó Maoilbhearaigh (see Mulberry 2).
  • Perhaps also an Americanized form of German Malburg.

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