American Family Name Origins:
La Nasa
Frequency: (274)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian: from a slang (feminine) form of naso ‘nose’, with the feminine definite article la. The feminine form is probably due to the influence of the Italian word famiglia ‘family’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 9%. Salvatore (2), Santo (2), Vito.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
