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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian (Meløy) : habitational name from any of several farmsteads on islands so named, from Old Norse meðal ‘middle’ (or melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’) + øy ‘island’.
  • Norwegian (Mjǫløy) : habitational name from a farmstead named with mjǫl ‘flour’, ‘sand’ + øy ‘island’.
  • Irish : variant of Malloy.

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