Rella
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Frequency: (288)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Italian: from a pet form (with the ending -ella) of a personal name ending in -ro, all other trace of which has been lost.
2. Greek: reduced form of Rellas or Rellakis, an occupational name for an embroiderer, a derivative of Greek reli ‘hem’, ‘border’, from Italian reglio.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 29%. Vito (4), Angelo (3), Giuseppe (3), Onofrio (3), Rocco (3), Orazio (2), Antonio, Carlo, Fedele, Lorenzo, Mauro.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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