Pella Family History
- Pella Name Meaning
- Italian: possibly a reduced form of Iacopella, a pet form of the personal name Iacopa, feminine form of Iacopo (see Jacob), or of Filippella, a pet form of Filippa, feminine form of Filippo. Italian: habitational name from Pella in Novara province. possibly Catalan: from old Catalan pella ‘used clothes’, perhaps a nickname for someone poorly dressed.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,456 Historical Documents with Pella on Ancestry
- 5,823 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,349 Census and Voter Lists
- 909 Military Records
- 1,117 Immigration Records
- 2,258 Member Trees
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Number of Pella families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pella 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
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