what is the meaning of mallory mean
Simple deduction leads to the conclusion that, far from meaning 'unfortunate', Mallory means 'crusher'! -- biloxi33406 9/7/2005. As I understand it, the reason experts on surnames believe that Mallory comes from the Old French word for unlucky is that all the earliest examples give the surname without any preposition.
Mallory is an anglicisation of an old Irish name. Mal means servant, one possible translation is mal o righ-servant of the king. There are other possible words, but mal is a very common beginning to Irish names, like Malcolm, servant of st Columba.