Vella is used as a family name or surname in Malta. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Vella
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Malta
Meaning: This is most often a Maltese name, arrived in France from North Africa. It should probably give it an Italian origin, and see a variant of Bella, feminine Bello (= beautiful). There are in fact quite frequently in the south of Italy, so not very far from Malta, the names Bella, Labella.

How popular is Vella?

Vella is common in Malta.

Vella is ranked 11349 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Vellas grew by 8.985742 per cent to 4051 since 2000 and ranked 8189 after elevating 21 spots. The last name was found in around 14 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 86.87 89.56
Hispanic or Latino 9.75 7.53
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.63 0.89
Others 0.94 1.53
Black 0.59 0.32
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.22 0.16
Vella is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Malta which signifies that it is originated from Malta. Around 47160 people have been found who wears Vella as their family name. Vella is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
4,742 China9
5,340 Iceland6
812 Monaco5
122,390 Belarus4
46,068 Philippines3
23,165 Romania3
18,114 Algeria3
1,922 Libya3
4,529 Mauritius3
32,472 Azerbaijan3
16,605 Austria3
127,708 Czech Republic3
4,104 South Korea2
34,572 Israel2
1,400 Mongolia2
10,284 Kuwait2
14,621 Croatia2
18,625 Japan2
7,110 Bosnia1
2,374 Bermuda1
7,847 Albania1
7,941 Guatemala1
15,162 Costa Rica1
37,779 Serbia1
13,606 Senegal1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
1,542 Andorra1
53,033 Nigeria1
123,175 Tanzania1
7,292 Vietnam1
16,228 Bulgaria1
2,057 Myanmar1
5,916 Mozambique1
38,830 Morocco1
2,333 Montenegro1
25,721 Egypt1
25,746 Finland1
3,071 Jersey1
8,859 Iraq1
42,479 Greece1
2,724 New Caledonia1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
21,562 Portugal1
1,253 Burundi1
34,581 Chile1
11,831 Tajikistan1
77,122 Sweden1
624 Solomon Islands1
24,421 Slovakia1
24,771 Colombia1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
586 San Marino1
692 Guinea1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
5,205 Qatar49
192,584 Russia48
4,813 Hong Kong47
6,376 Singapore47
6,873 Ireland44
1,588 Luxembourg40
49,393 Netherlands35
5,663 Thailand18
186,451 Ukraine16
29,040 Denmark15
113,815 Kazakhstan14
481 Gibraltar11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
86,456 Indonesia95
27,716 Spain94
4,105 Wales90
16,172 Peru71
13,832 United Arab Emirates69
23,959 Zimbabwe62
Countries with hundreds of Vella:
13,156 Germany773
14,184 South Africa438
13,426 Kenya314
6,268 Belgium290
7,134 Malaysia278
5,321 Hungary229
8,460 Venezuela176
7,350 Switzerland162
7,748 Tunisia132
4,630 Scotland125
27,127 Mexico105
7,143 New Zealand102
Countries with thousands of Vella:
833 Italy8,499
409 Australia7,130
7,495 United States5,053
2,443 France3,025
18,375 India2,329
3,919 England1,925
2,997 Canada1,595
12,550 Brazil1,081
5,050 Argentina1,030
Countries with ten thousands of Vella:
2 Malta11,409
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Andrea Vella worked as barber and hailed from Cefala Diana, Italy. 16 years old embarked for New York from Naples on Manilla and arrived on May 31, 1900. 65 years old Angela Vella, 30 years old Angelina Vella, 14 years old Angelo Vella, 29 years old Anna Vella, Anna Vella (31), Antonietta Vella (3), Antonino Vella (28) Fisherman, Baker Armando Vella, and 103 other Vella around 31.11% of whom were laborer while others worked as fisherman and baker, country man, miner, peasant, shoemaker, porter, mason, hat manufacturer, helper migrated to US from Naples, Mediterranean Ports, Naples & Palermo, Marseilles & Naples, Messina and Naples & Palermo.

Comments

L
Lesa Wagner
vella may be a regional variant of Villa, with the former meaning of field and village locality name that generates a name.

Vella Namesakes

  • Vinny Vella, Actor
  • Aliza Vellani, Television actress
  • Amedeo Vella, Composer
  • Amedeo Vella, Composer
  • Vinny Vella, Actor
  • Dominique Vellard, Music performer
  • Fiorella Vella, Adam Vella's wife
  • Giuseppa Vella, Actress
  • Dominique Vellard, Music performer
  • Janne Vellamo, Soccer player
  • In 2009, Nadia Vella characterized the role of N in horror film Dikejar Setan.

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