Maijala Family History
Maijala Name Meaning
Finnish:: habitational name from farms so named from maija a dialect variant of maja ‘cottage hut’ + the locative suffix -la. Found as a hereditary surname in southern western and northern Finland. in a few cases possibly also a habitational name from a farm named with the female personal name Maija a Finnish vernacular form of Maria and Margaret indicating that the farm has been managed by a widow (compare Annala ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022