Bella Family History
- Bella Name Meaning
- Italian: from the medieval female personal name Bella, meaning ‘beautiful’, ‘lovely’. Italian: possibly a habitational name from Basilicata Bella, in Potenza, probably so named with Latin labellum ‘little basin’. Greek: reduced form of Bellas.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 86,161 Historical Documents with Bella on Ancestry
- 44,065 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,925 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,707 Military Records
- 8,261 Immigration Records
- 17,203 Member Trees
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Number of Bella families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bella families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bella census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bella census records
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