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Meaning & Origins
Pet form of Mary, which, like the now obsolete variant Mally, seems to have been coined in the 18th century. Since the 1990s it has been increasingly popular in many parts of the English-speaking world.
| 485th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: habitational name from a pair of villages in Northumbria named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The name is now most frequent in the West Midlands, however, so it may be that a place of the same name in that area should be sought as its origin.
| 839th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Mollie, Mollye, Molli, Molley, Mollee, Molla, Moll, Molloy, Molle, Mollly
Bentley, Bentz, Bent, Bunton, Bento, Banton, Buntin, Bentson, Bently, Bentsen
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