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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Canela

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : metonymic occupational name for a candle maker, from a dialectal or obselete variant of Catalan candela ‘candle’.
  • Catalan : possibly also metonymic occupational name for a spicer, from a dialectal or old form of canyella ‘cinnamon’.

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