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Frequency: (575)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: nickname for a virile man, from Middle English male ‘masculine’ (Old French masle, madle, Latin masculus).
2. Belgian (van Male): habitational name from any of a number of places in Flanders named Male.
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