its about the surname SPAGNOL?

Question

i know some people in Malta whose surname is Spagnol.i don't know is something to do with Spain .

Answer 1

http://www.genealogymalta.com/

Spagnol could derive from Spagniol so also see follwing web site

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=273&letter=B

In addition to the Jews from Palestine, the Jewish population of Barbary is largely composed of immigrants from Spain and Portugal. The "Spagniols," indeed, constitute the better class, and live mostly in cities; while the others lead a nomadic life in the Atlas mountains and beyond, being found far within the Sahara and even among the Kabyles. InTunis there are also many Italian Jews. The majority of the 400,000 Jews now (1902) resident in Africa are living in the Barbary States (H. Schurtz, "Katechismus der Völkerkunde," p. 326, Leipsic, 1893).

Answer 2

It sounds like the word, Espagnol, so maybe the original settler with that name was simply known as the Spaniard, being at the time the only one. Many names get worn away and abbreviated over time in this way, especially in times when literacy wasn't common: witness London pub names, The Elephant and Castle was originally L'infanta del Castille (the princess of Castile) and the Bag o'Nails was the Bacchanalia (from the drunken revels of the God Bacchus and his followers.)