Last name origins & meanings:
- Spanish (Ávila): habitational name from Ávila in
old Castile. Its name, first recorded in the Latin forms Avela
and Abulia, is of unknown derivation and
meaning.
- Portuguese and Galician: from Davila, a
topographic name for someone from a town or village, da vila,
reinterpreted as d’Avila.
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