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avila Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Ávila): habitational name from Ávila in old Castile. Its name, first recorded in the Latin forms Avela and Abulia, is of unknown derivation and meaning.
  2. Portuguese and Galician: from Davila, a topographic name for someone from a town or village, da vila, reinterpreted as d’Avila.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The avila name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the avila family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of avila Families in the US in 1920
Number of avila families
 115-228
 39-114		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 138 - Messages: 355
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Urbano Avila and Bibiana Garay de Avila joeinlbc34 0
Origins of Avila pattie 22
Death of Frank AVILA P_Mathon 2
AVILA'S FROM JEREZ, ZACATECAS askarloff 3
FAMILY HISTORY JULIE AVILA 19
Looking for Francisco Avila family of Salamanca, GTO. Mexico orgullodemexico 1
Avila from Guanajuato, Mexico 1800's Paula 1
Avilas from Terceira raq422 4
Looking for the family of Genoveva Avila Kathy 3
joseph avila lori 7
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