Dula Family History
Dula Name Meaning
Polish: from dialect dula ‘quince’ or ‘pear’ (compare Slovak name below). Alternatively a nickname from duldać ‘to quaff’. Slovak (also Duľa): from dula ‘quince’ probably a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a quince tree. Alternatively a nickname from duliť sa ‘swell’ or from dulieť ‘grow fat’. Slovak (Ďula): from a Slovakized form of the Hungarian personal name Gyula. Alternatively a variant of the name above. Albanian (mainly Kosovo): from Dulë (definite form Dula) a short form of the Albanian Muslim personal name Avdul a vernacular short form of Abdullah . Ethiopian: from the personal name Dula of Oromo origin which is interpreted as ‘king’ in the Amharic language. Filipino: from Tagalog dula ‘stage play’. This might be a shortened form of lakandula a title given to the best dramatist derived from lakan ‘title of nobililty’ + dula.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022