Malette
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Frequency: (156)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: from a diminutive of Old French male ‘trunk’, ‘chest’, ‘coffer’. This may have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of chests, or by extension for a carrier.
GIVEN NAMES: French 12%. Gaston (4), Alphonse, Francois, Jacques, Rejean, Serge.
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