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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Garden or field of fruit

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Sicily and Naples) : occupational name for a spice merchant, from cannella ‘cinnamon’ (from Latin cannella), or possibly a nickname for a tall thin man, from the same word in the sense ‘thin reed’.

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