American Family Name Origins:
La Piana
Frequency: (176)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: topographic name for someone who lived on a plain or plateau, Italian piana (Latin planum, from the adjective planus ‘flat’, ‘level’), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 17%. Salvatore (5), Emilia, Gasper, Lia, Nicola, Rosario, Sal, Salvator.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
