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Malkin

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a medieval female personal name, a diminutive of Mal(le), a pet form of Mary (see Mall), with the hypocoristic suffix -kin.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Malke (from Hebrew Malka ‘queen’) + the Slavic metronymic suffix -in.

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