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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from a district so named in Filiano in Potenza province.
  • Italian : otherwise, from scalera, either a topographic name from the sense ‘ladder’ (see Scala), or, in Salento, a metonymic occupational name from the sense ‘artichoke’.

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