Petralia Family History
Petralia Name Meaning
Italian (Sicily): habitational name from Petralia Soprana or Petralia Sottana in Palermo from Greek petra leia ‘smooth stone’. In some cases also an American shortened form (and Greek feminine form denoting ‘the daughter or wife of’) of Greek Petralias a surname of the same origin as 1 above derived from Sicilian settlers in Greece.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022