American Family Name Origins:
La Franchi
Frequency: (109)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian Swiss (Ticino): derivative of Franco, the feminine definite article no doubt being due to the influence of the Italian word famiglia ‘family’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
