Given name & surname
Maillard
“to be able, may”
Maillard is a surname from Proto-Germanic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maillard goes back to Proto-Germanic *maganą, meaning “to be able, may.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Maillard’s family of names
In French usage, Maillard as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Mayåd.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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