Surname Colombella
Origin and meaning
From the word "colomba" (= pigeon). Colombo is the most common surname in Lombardy, where it seems to derive from the painting of a dove on the walls of churches where infants were abandoned.
💡 The surname Colombella also appears as variant of the surname Colombo in other studies consulted in this project.
📍 You can view how this surname is distributed in Italy: View distribution in Italy (Cognomix)
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary integrates the information available in specialized onomastic studies.
Sources
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:
- Research conducted by Surnames in Italy, the English-language project of Ancestros Italianos, based on the bibliography cited in the references.