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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