The cala Surname
cala Name Meaning and History
- Spanish and southern Italian (Sicily): habitational name from any of numerous minor places in eastern and southern Spain, and one in Sicily, called Cala, from a proto-Romance word cala ‘bay’, ‘cove’.
- Southern Italian: nickname from medieval Greek kalas ‘good’, ‘beautiful’ (ancient Greek kalos).
- Czech (Cála): from a reduced form of an unidentified personal name beginning with Ca-.
- Polish (Ca{l-}a): variant of Ca{l-} (see Cal).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 11 - Messages: 75
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| looking for cala's | sarajo | 45 |
| tracing the bloodline.... |
 lemeoj1988
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| Cala here! |
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| Cala Ancestry |
JoeCalla
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| Raymond (Raimondo) Cala -- San Cataldo, 1911 |
Bob_Melson
| 1 |
| Cala Family San Cataldo Sicily |
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| Cala |
etnies853
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| Salvatore Cala - San Cataldo 1903 |
sandstorm1981_1
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| reginald reyes |
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| Hi... | Krystle Cala | 11 |
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