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rolla Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: origin uncertain; perhaps from a feminine form of an unattested male personal name Rollo, of Germanic origin.
  2. German: nickname for a farmer, from Sorbian rola ‘cultivated field’.

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

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Distribution of rolla Families in the US in 1920
Number of rolla families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 33
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John Rolla of Booneville, Indiana ~ Lynched in 1900 BasketLady420 0
Rolla Family Search Tammy8664 1
William H. Rolla Carolyn Stouffer 1
Rolla name Lisa Jones 0
Rolla...please help Tammie Brown 1
ROLLA_Martha_Ann_1859-1944.JPG Allen Wheatley 0
ROLLA_Rolland_Jacob_1933-1953.JPG Allen Wheatley 0
Family genealogy Virginia LaMantia 10
Rolla Surname roghag 2
RE: Rolla Surname justgranni 1
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