American Family Name Origins:
La Fata
Frequency: (446)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: from the feminine definite article la + the personal name Fata, feminine form of Fato, a reduced form of Bonifato or a similar name.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 33%. Salvatore (13), Vito (6), Antonio (3), Gaspar (3), Gasper (2), Matteo (2), Angelo, Attilio, Carmine, Dino, Giovanni, Guiseppe, Leonarda, Leticia, Marco, Mario, Ninfa, Rosalia, Salvadore.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
