Popularity of the last name by country
Switzerland
All countries
- France (995,230)
- Belgium (84,253)
- Netherlands (5,766)
- Algeria (3,188)
- United States (1,219)
- United Kingdom (1,212)
- Germany (1,036)
- Luxembourg (676)
- Austria (496)
- Spain (473)
- Switzerland (384)
- Martinique (163)
- French Polynesia (115)
- Romania (110)
- Hungary (107)
- Poland (107)
- Canada (94)
- Italy (93)
- Madagascar (86)
- Morocco (84)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (72)
- Viet Nam (62)
- Guadeloupe (59)
- New Caledonia (52)
- Chile (47)
- Russian Federation (46)
- Réunion (44)
- Turkey (36)
- Tunisia (35)
- Australia (34)
- Unknown country (33)
- New Zealand (32)
- Ireland (29)
- Mauritius (29)
- Czech republic (28)
- Moldova, Republic of (27)
- Ukraine (21)
- French Guiana (20)
- Denmark (19)
- Indonesia (18)
Origine of last name
MARCHAL : 1: French and Walloon: status name or occupational name from Old French maresc(h)al ‘marshal’. The term is of ancient Germanic origin (from marah ‘horse mare’ + scalc ‘servant’) and was originally applied to a man who looked after horses. In the Middle Ages it also came to be used on the one hand as an occupational name for a farrier and on the other as a status name for an officer of state in particular a member of a royal household with military responsibilities. Compare English <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marshall">Marshall</a> and 2 below.2: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marshall">Marshall</a>. This form of the surname is rare in Britain and Ireland and is found mainly in Glamorgan Wales.
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