Name Meanings & Origins

MALVA

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The name MALVA derives from MALVINA, and may have Spanish (Latin American), Danish, Ancient Celtic, English, or Literature origins.

Created by the poet James MacPherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossian poems. He probably intended it to mean "smooth brow" in Gaelic.

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