Malpas

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)

1. A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847).
2. A village on the Truro River in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8442).
3. A suburb of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3090).
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 6864^th 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 500.

Anagrams

• Palmas, lampas, palmas, plasma