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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (Campania) : habitational name from places called Padula, in Salerno and Teramo, Paduli in Benevento, or various other places, all named from a metathesized form of palude ‘swamp’.
  • Polish (Paduła) : nickname for someone who was unsteady on his feet, from a derivative of padać ‘to fall down’.

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