Italian: from a pet form (with the ending -ella) of a
personal name ending in -ro, all other trace of which has been
lost.Greek: reduced form of Rellas or
Rellakis, an occupational name for an embroiderer, a derivative
of Greek reli ‘hem’, ‘border’, from Italian reglio.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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