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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : variant spelling of the habitational name Perella.
  • Catalan : apparently also a habitational name, possibly from pareja ‘pair’, as a medieval land measurement denoting the area of land that could be plowed by a pair of oxen in one day.
  • Italian : unexplained.

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