Last name origins & meanings:
- Catalan, Galician, and Spanish: habitational name from any of
several places called Abella, in Catalonia, Galicia and
Santander.
- Catalan and Galician: from abella ‘bee’,
hence a nickname for a small, active person or an occupational name
for a beekeeper.
- Italian: mainly Sicilian variant of
Avella.
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