MALINS
The surname Malins is of English origin and derives from the medieval given name Malin, itself a diminutive of Mary.
The name Mary is ultimately sourced from the Hebrew name Miryam, meaning “beloved” or “wished‑for child”. Consequently the surname Malins can be interpreted to mean “descendant of Malin”, indicating a familial connection to an ancestor bearing that given name.
It is noteworthy that the surname is one of the few surviving English surnames that were formed from the mother’s given name. The derivation in this case traces back to the medieval female name Malin, a pet form of Mary.
The earliest recorded spelling of the family name is that of John Malynes, dated 1358 in Putnam’s “Enforcement of the Statutes of labourers”, Warwickshire, during the reign of King Edward the First, who reigned from 1327 to 1377.
Other early documentation includes Malina without a surname, recorded in the 1212 Curia Regis Rolls of Nottinghamshire, and a Malin Gogun noted in the Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire in 1273. A John Malin appears in the 1297 Subsidy Rolls of Yorkshire, and on 8 January 1858 Walter, son of James Lloyd Malins, was christened at Pentonville, London.
A coat of arms was granted to the Malins family: a black shield with two red pallets on a gold fess, the crest being an arm in armour proper grasping a gold crescent.
The name has undergone several diminutive and pet forms over time, including Marion, Mall, Moll and Marriot. These variations provide further insight into the linguistic evolution of the given name Malin within English society.
Typical given names associated with the Malins surname
Male
- Andrew
- Christopher
- David
- James
- John
- Julian
- Mark
- Michael
- Paul
- Stephen
- Steve
- Thomas
- Timothy
Female
- Catherine
- Claire
- Jacqueline
- Jane
- Julie
- Kim
- Laura
- Samantha
- Sandra
- Susan
- Tracey
Similar and related surnames
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There are approximately 777 people named Malins in the UK. That makes it roughly the 8,977th most common surname in Britain. Around 12 in a million people in Britain are named Malins.
Famous people named Malins
- Geoffrey Malins - American screenwriter, film director, producer, and cinematographer (1886 to 1940)
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