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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : unexplained.
  • Possibly a variant of Belgian French Malis, Molisse, a nickname from French malice ‘mischief’.
  • Lithuanian : from molius ‘brickmaker’ or molis ‘clay’, also used in a transferred senses as a nickname for a dirty person.

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