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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Malden in Surrey (now in Greater London) or Maldon in Essex. Both places were named in Old English as ‘hill with a cross or monument’, from mǣl ‘monument’, ‘cross’ (crucifix) + dūn ‘hill’.

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