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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from sulla ‘sainfoin’ (Latin sulla), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived where the plant grew or possibly a habitational name from a place named with this word.
  • Jewish (from Ukraine) : ornamental name from Ukrainian sula ‘pike-perch’.

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