Machela

surname · Latin script

Meaning: hammock, stretcher, palanquin

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Machela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 580K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

66 people, 2026

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 580K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

hammock, stretcher, palanquin

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Machela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Machela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland661 in 580K37——
TZ Tanzania———Machela9
US United States——6Machela39
ZA South Africa———Machela8
KE Kenya———Machela1
DE Germany———Machela5

66 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Machela is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Machéla

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Machela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202637—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—37#60,932
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202629—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—29#71,733
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Machela mean, and where does it come from?
hammock, stretcher, palanquin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Machela have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 66 people named Machela, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Machela most common?
Machela is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 580 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Machela?
In Poland, the national register counted 66 people named Machela in 2026, about 1 in 580 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Machela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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