Mauldin
A surname usually traced to a place name or older personal name, with roots in medieval English or French naming traditions.
The #3,561 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 30,841 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Mauldin is generally treated as an English surname with likely locational or nickname-style roots, though its exact source is not firmly settled. It may be connected to a medieval place name or to a personal name that developed in Norman French and English use. In some cases, surnames of this form were influenced by spellings related to "Maldon" or to older forms built on the element meaning "meeting place" or "assembly hill," but the evidence is not decisive.
History
The surname is best known in the United States, where it is found especially in the South and in areas shaped by early Anglo-American settlement. Like many surnames with unstable medieval spellings, Mauldin could have arisen independently in more than one family line. The name appears in records in several variant spellings, which makes its precise origin hard to pin down from later forms alone.
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Fun fact
Because the spelling was not standardized for centuries, Mauldin-like surnames can sometimes hide several different historical origins under one modern form.