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Mal - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Mal

[ 1 syll. mal, ma-l ] The boy name Mal is also used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is MAEL KEY. Mal is used chiefly in the Welsh and English languages, and its origin is Germanic, Celtic, and Old French.

Mal is a variant of the name Mallory (English).

Mal is also a short form of the name Malcolm (English and Scottish) in the English language.

Mal is also a variant of the name Baldwin (English and German) in the Welsh language. Mal is also a short form of the name Maldwyn (Welsh).

Mal is a rarely used baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly linked to Mal, Malcolm (English and Scottish) was the most frequently used.

Baby names that sound like Mal include Mael (Breton and French), Maël (Breton and French), Manel (English), Mel (Spanish and English), Mile (Slavic), Malloy (Irish), Manley (English), Manly (English), Manuel (English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish), Manuele (Italian), Mauli, Melo (Spanish), Mihail (Greek, Romanian, and Slavic), Mihal (Hungarian), Millà (Catalan), Milo (Czech, Spanish, English, and Slavic), Minel (Spanish), Manlio (Italian), Manoel (Portuguese), and Manolo (Italian and Spanish).

KEY: Pronunciation for Mal: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


 
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