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rella Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: from a pet form (with the ending -ella) of a personal name ending in -ro, all other trace of which has been lost.
  2. Greek: reduced form of Rellas or Rellakis, an occupational name for an embroiderer, a derivative of Greek reli ‘hem’, ‘border’, from Italian reglio.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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rella Family Facts

Distribution of rella Families in the US in 1920
Number of rella families
 20-37
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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