Malpas

See also: Malpàs

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French mal (“bad”) + pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.

Proper noun

Malpas (countable and uncountable, plural Malpases)

  1. A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847). [1]
  2. A village on the Truro River in St Clement parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8442).
  3. A suburb and community in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3090). [2]
  4. A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
  5. A habitational surname from Old French.

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Malpas is the 6864th most common surname in England, belonging to 980 individuals.

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Cheshire)
  2. ^ Community map (Newport)

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