Arola Family History

Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from aro ‘hard relatively infertile ground’ or ‘wet meadow swamp’ (compare Aro) with the locative suffix -la. Established as a hereditary surname in the 19th century in southern western and northern Finland.

Italian (Campania): habitational name from Arola in Naples province.

Catalan: topographic name from arola (from Latin areola) ‘threshing floor’.