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evangelista Name Meaning and History

Italian: from Evangelista ‘evangelist’ (a derivative of Greek euangelos ‘bringer of good news’, from eu ‘well’, ‘good’ + angelos ‘messenger’). This is the term used to denote any of the four gospel writers of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), in particular St. John the Evangelist.

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

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Distribution of evangelista Families in the US in 1920
Number of evangelista families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 26 - Messages: 77
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Evangelista, changed to Evangelist in 1950's Joseph C Evangelist 10
Evangelista's from Sicily to Trenton NJ MariaMorreale88 0
Evangelista's from the Phillipines Dee Evangelist 10
Teresa Evangelista in Gorgoglione cemetery SBdansmom 0
MY FAMILY WANT TO FIND OUT MORE CARLENE NOW DORFMAN 8
Pasquale Evangelista valeria evangelista 0
Evangelistas from Italy, York Pa. etc virginia Hernandez 6
William A Evangelista Sr. obituary dactackm 0
Evangelista Tina 1
Evangelista via the Phillipines halconcito 12
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