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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Machen.
  • Spanish (Machín) : probably a nickname from machín ‘boor’, ‘lout’, often applied to a blacksmith’s apprentice.
  • French : nickname from Old French machin ‘scheming’.

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