Casa Family History
Casa Name Meaning
Italian Spanish Catalan Portuguese and southern French: topographic name from casa ‘house’ (from Latin casa ‘hut cottage cabin’) perhaps originally denoting the occupier of the most distinguished house in a village. Italian: from a short form of the personal name Benincasa an omen or well-wishing name meaning ‘welcome in (our) house’. Italian (Sicily; Casà): probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddlecloths from Greek kasas ‘saddlecloth’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022