Pella

Family name origins & meanings

• Italian : possibly a reduced form of Iacopella, a pet form of the personal name Iacopa, feminine form of Iacopo (see Jacob), or of Filippella, a pet form of Filippa, feminine form of Filippo.
• Italian : habitational name from Pella in Novara province.
• possibly Catalan : from old Catalan pella ‘used clothes’, perhaps a nickname for someone poorly dressed.