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via Name Meaning and History

  1. French (Huguenot): variant of Viau (see Vial).
  2. Southern Italian: from a short form of a personal name or surname ending with -via, for example Bellavia.
  3. Southern Italian: from a variant of Bia, a personal name of Greek origin, a calque of Latin Vita ‘life’.

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Distribution of via Families in the US in 1920
Number of via families
 110-218
 37-109		 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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