Falla Family History
- Falla Name Meaning
- Spanish and Catalan ((de) Falla): probably a nickname from Catalan falla ‘torch’ or ‘bonfire’ (in particular one which was lit in the streets of a city on public festivals), or an occupational name for one who lit such a bonfire.Spanish: perhaps a nickname from falla ‘flaw’, ‘error’, ‘doubt’ (Latin falla). Scottish: habitational name from any of various places named Falla, Fala, or Fallaw, especially Fala in Midlothian. The second element is probably law ‘hill’. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm so named in southeastern Norway, so named from fall ‘fall’, probably with reference to the site of a landside or to tree felling.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,689 Historical Documents with Falla on Ancestry
- 14,144 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,036 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,069 Military Records
- 3,120 Immigration Records
- 21,320 Member Trees
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Number of Falla families
 231 - 459  78 - 230 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Falla families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Falla census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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