Malpas
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See also: Malpàs
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Malpass
Etymology
[edit]From Old French mal (“bad”) pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.
Proper noun
[edit]Malpas (countable and uncountable, plural Malpases)
- A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847).
- A village on the Truro River in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8442).
- A suburb of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3090).
- A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
- A habitational surname from Old French.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Malpas is the 6864th most common surname in England, belonging to 980 individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Malpas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 500.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Towns in Cheshire, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cheshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Cornwall, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Cornwall, England
- en:Suburbs in Wales
- en:Places in Newport
- en:Places in Wales
- en:Communes of France
- en:Places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- en:Places in France
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old French