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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for an enameler, from Middle English ameillur, Old French esmailleur (see Mailer).
  • English and Welsh : from the Welsh personal name Meilyr.
  • Scottish : habitational name from Mailer in Forteviot, Perthshire.

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