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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Slovenian : from the Germanic personal name Marholt, composed of the elements mari, meri ‘famous’ + wald ‘rule’.
  • Slovenian : possibly also a nickname for an educated or studious person, from the obsolete Slovenian word marovt ‘student’.

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