Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from a diminutive of Spata.
- Italian : from old Sicilian spatula ‘grass’, ‘iris’ (or other plant with lanceolate leaves), used as a topographic name.
- Italian : nickname from spatola, a species of wading bird, so named for the shape of its beak.
- Italian : from Sicilian spàtula, a kind of fish, presumably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble this fish or as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman.