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casa Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish: from casa ‘house’ (Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’), perhaps originally denoting the occupier of the most distinguished house in a village.
  2. Italian: from a short form of the personal name Benincasa, an omen name meaning ‘welcome in (our) house’.
  3. Italian (Sicily; Casà): probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddlecloths, from Greek kasas ‘saddlecloth’.

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

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

casa Family Facts

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Distribution of casa Families in the US in 1920
Number of casa families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Death of Mr. Demosthenes L. Casa davwayell 0
Gaetano Casa Ginny 1
Relatives Jack Tucker 0
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