Bella Family History
Bella Name Meaning
Italian: from the medieval female personal name Bella,
meaning ‘beautiful’, ‘lovely’.Italian: possibly a habitational
name from Basilicata Bella, in Potenza, probably so named with Latin
labellum ‘little basin’.Greek: reduced form of
Bellas.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bella
Name Distribution of Bella Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bella families
 40 - 77  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bella families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bella families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bella census records
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Bella Family Origin
Bella Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bella
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bella Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bella census records
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Bella Civil War Service Records
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