Malpas
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See also: Malpàs
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Malpass
Etymology
From Old French mal (“bad”) + pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.
Proper noun
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
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Malpas is the 6864th most common surname in England, belonging to 980 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Malpas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 500.