About the Machala Surname

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What Machala means

Machala and Machalski are two spellings with one history. The name is generally explained as “Of Machaly / Maciej”.

Before spelling was fixed, Machalski was also written Machala. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Machala ranked 44,356 in the 2010 US Census, with 485 people answering to the name.

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