Varela Family History
Varela Name Meaning
Galician: habitational name from any of the places in Galicia
named Varela, from a diminutive of vara ‘rod’, ‘stick’.Greek (Varelas): from Greek varela ‘barrel’, from
Italian barella ‘barrel’. Accented on the final syllable,
varelás is a metonymic occupational name for a cooper; with
the accent on the middle syllable, varélas is a nickname for
a large fat man.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Varela Families
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Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Varela families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Varela Family Origin
Varela Emigration Information (US)
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Varela Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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