French (Huguenot): variant of Viau (see Vial).Southern Italian: from a short form of a personal name or surname
ending with -via, for example Bellavia.Southern
Italian: from a variant of Bia, a personal name of Greek
origin, a calque of Latin Vita ‘life’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Via
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