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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily, Villa Rosa) : variant of Sollima, from Solyma (Hierosolyma), which is found as a medieval personal name, although the surname is most probably a habitational name derived from a place called Casa Sollima, presumably named with the old personal name.

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