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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from any of various places named with Colla, from medieval Latin colla ‘hill’, ‘col’ (a derivative of Latin collis ‘hill’).
  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Nikolaas (see Nicholas).

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