Palla Family History
- Palla Name Meaning
- Italian: from palla ‘ball’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cannon balls or a nickname for a player of ball games or someone with a rotund figure. Catalan: habitational name from any of several places of this name in Catalonia. Catalan and Galician: also probably a derivative of palla ‘straw’. Hungarian: from the personal name Pál (see Pal). Indian (Gujarat): Muslim name of unknown meaning. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name, probably from Panjabi p?lla ‘edge of a garment’, ‘support’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,603 Historical Documents with Palla on Ancestry
- 12,161 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,852 Census and Voter Lists
- 726 Military Records
- 1,100 Immigration Records
- 1,764 Member Trees
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Number of Palla families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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