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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname from volante ‘(he) who flies’ (compare 3, below).
  • Spanish : unexplained.
  • English : nickname from the present participle of Old French voler ‘to fly’, in the sense of ‘nimble’, ‘agile’.

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