Abella

Family name origins & meanings

• Catalan, Galician, and Spanish : habitational name from any of several places called Abella, in Catalonia, Galicia and Santander.
• Catalan and Galician : from abella ‘bee’, hence a nickname for a small, active person or an occupational name for a beekeeper.
• Italian : mainly Sicilian variant of Avella.