Frequency: (699)
(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: see Mallory.
2. French: from a Frenchified form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements madal ‘council’ + rīc ‘power’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
