Last name: AMELIA

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AMELIA : This last name is indexed 27,368 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

AMELIA : 1: Italian (mainly Lazio Campania) West Indian (Dutch Caribbean) and Indonesian: from the personal name Amelia a feminine form of Latin Amelius and Italian Amelio. As a West Indian surname it reflects the partially mother-oriented name culture of the formerly enslaved people in the West Indies (compare Martina). — Note: As a name from Indonesia or any other country where hereditary surnames are not in general use this name was registered as a surname only after immigration of its bearers to the US.2: Italian (mainly Lazio Campania): possibly also a habitational name from a place called Amelia in Umbria.

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