Given name & surname · also French
Machin
“maker; builder; see make”
Machin is a surname from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Frankish.
Original FrenchTrucmuche
Meaning & origin
What it means
Machin goes back to Frankish *makjo, meaning “maker; builder; see make.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Machin comes from Anglo-Norman, and ultimately from Frankish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Anglo-Norman machun, from Frankish *makjo (“maker; builder; see make”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Machin’s family of names
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