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Valli Surname Meaning

Italian: patronymic or plural form of Valle or a habitational name from a place called with this word as for example Valli del Pasubio or Valli dei Signori. Italianized form of Slovenian Valič: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Valentin (see Valentine).

Hungarian (Válli): habitational name for someone from Vál in Fehér County or Vály in Gömör County (now Valice in Slovakia). Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from valli ‘embankment, lawn, pasture’.

Established as a hereditary surname in southwestern Finland and southern Ostrobothnia since the 19th century. Occasionally adopted also as an ornamental name.

This standard Finnish variant is rare in the US where the surname is mostly spelled Walli. American shortened form (and Greek feminine form denoting ‘the daughter or wife of’) of Greek Vallis.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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You can see how Valli families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Valli family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Canada between 1880 and 1920. The most Valli families were found in USA in 1920. In 1911 there were 4 Valli families living in Quebec. This was 100% of all the recorded Valli's in Canada. Quebec had the highest population of Valli families in 1911.

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Between 1953 and 2004, in the United States, Valli life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1953, and highest in 1989. The average life expectancy for Valli in 1953 was 43, and 88 in 2004.

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