American Family Name Origins:
Sabella
Frequency: (716)
(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 personal name Sabello, Savello (Latin Sabellus, originally derived from a tribal name).
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 11%; French 5%. Calogero (4), Angelo (3), Salvatore (2), Vito (2), Antonio, Biagio, Domenico, Filippo, Gaetano, Gasper, Guiseppe; Andre (2), Alphonse, Camille, Jean-Claude, Lucien.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
