Spatola Family History

Italian: from a diminutive of Spata. Habitational name from Spadola in Vibo Valentia province.

From old Sicilian spatula ‘grass iris’ (or other plant with lanceolate leaves) used as a topographic name.

From spatola, a species of wading bird so named for the shape of its beak, hence possibly used as a nickname for a fowler or for someone with a beak-like nose.

From Sicilian spàtula, a kind of fish presumably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble this fish or perhaps for a fisherman.