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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : descriptive nickname from Middle English morphew ‘blemish’, ‘birthmark’, from Italian morfea.
  • English : According to Reaney, an Anglo-Norman French nickname from Old French malfé, malfeü, from Latin malefatus, malefatutus ‘ill-fated’, a derogatory term for a Saracen or the devil.

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