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Re: Surname Mauleon
Yes. Place names are older than hereditary surnames, and there are many surnames that derive from place names. At some stage the named individual's ancestors would have been associated with the location, probably living there. If you could trace the place name and surname back through the records, I'm sure that you would find that the place name was in existence long before the surname.
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