by Kalle (guest)
7/19/2002, 8:29 AM
If that is a surname and has any Finnish connection, then it would mean a house or a place with plenty of berries. It would have been spelt originally Marjala or Marjola and the j could have changed to i because of the closer pronunciation. (Marja, marjo- = berry, -la = a place, homestead by...)