American Family Name Origins:
La Falce
Frequency: (148)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: metonymic occupational name for a harvester or user of a sickle, from the definite article la + falce ‘sickle’, ‘scythe’ (Latin falx).
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 12%. Carmela, Carmelo, Carmine, Santo.
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