Macho Family History

Spanish: nickname from macho ‘male; mule’ (from Latin masculus ‘male masculine’) applied either to denote a virile strong man or alternatively an idiot.

Spanish: possibly also a nickname for a forceful person or a metonymic occupational name for a smith from macho ‘sledgehammer’ (from Latin marculus ‘hammer’).

Slovak: from a derivative of the personal name Martin.

Americanized form of Hungarian Macsó: from the old personal name Macsó probably a derivative of the personal name Mátyás (see Matyas).