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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Greek (Skalas) : habitational or topographic name from any of various places named with scala ‘ladder’, ‘steps’, ‘wharf’. In Greece this is especially common as the name of a settlement by the seashore, often with the main settlement on higher ground above.
  • Jewish : variant spelling of Skala.

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