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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cornwall) : unexplained.
  • Czech (Medlín) : derivative of Medla, a name of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from mdlý ‘faint’, or an occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead from med ‘honey’, ‘mead’.

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