Sala Family History
Sala Name Meaning
Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, southern French (Occitan), and
Romanian: from sala ‘hall’, hence a topographic name or an
occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house. Both
the Italian and Catalan names may also be of habitational origin: in
the case of Italian, from (amongst others) Sala Biellese (Biella
province), Sala Consilina (Salerno province), and Sala Monferrato
(Alessandria), and in the case of Catalan from places called Sala or
La Sala. This name is very common in Catalonia. RS, DK, EC. IGI:
chiefly Italian and Catalan; none truly Spanish et al.Spanish,
Asturian-Leonese, and Aragonese: in some cases, habitational name from
places called Sala (Asturies and Aragón) or La Sala
(Asturies).Hungarian: from a short form of the
Biblical name Salamon (see Solomon).Muslim:
variant of Salah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sala
Name Distribution of Sala Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sala families
 25 - 48  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sala families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sala families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sala Family Origin
Sala Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sala
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Sala Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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