Origin and popularity of the name COLLE

Origin

Colle : 1: French (northern) Walloon and Flemish: from a short form of the personal name Nicolas (see Nicholas). Compare Cole.2: English (Glamorgan): variant of Coll.3: Italian: topographic name from colle ‘hill col’ or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word.4: Americanized form of German Koll or the variant Kolle.

Colee : Possibly an altered form of English Coley or of French and Walloon Collee and Collée as variants of Colle and Collé.

Colletta : Italian:: 1: from the feminine form of the personal name Colletto.2: habitational name from any of various places called Colletta (a derivative of colle ‘hill). Compare Colletto 2.3: nickname or status name from the medieval term colletta ‘meeting assembly’.

Colletto : Italian:: 1: from a pet form of the personal name Cola.2: derivative of a topographic name such as Colla or Colle formed with the diminutive suffix -etto or a habitational name from any of various places called Colletto (from a diminutive of colle ‘hill). Compare Colletta.3: nickname from the vocabulary word colletto ‘collar neck’.

Colli : Italian: topographic name from the plural of colle ‘hill col’ (see Colle) or a habitational name from any of various places called Colli.

Gioia : Italian:: 1: from the personal name Gioia derived from gioia ‘jewel precious object’. This is normally a female name but there are occasional records of its use as a masculine personal name in the Middle Ages. It may also have been a nickname for someone who frequently used the expression mia gioia ‘my joy’.2: habitational name from any of various places in southern Italy named with this word including Gioia del Colle (Bari) Gioia Sannitica (Caserta) and Gioia Tauro (Calabria).

Palo : 1: Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from palo ‘burnt land field cleared by burning’ often as a shortening of a nearby placename such as Palomäki (with mäki ‘hill’) and Palojärvi (with järvi ‘lake’). Mainly found in western Finland especially in southern Ostrobothnia Tavastia and western Lapland.2: Italian: habitational name from any of several places so named for instance Palo del Colle in Bari province or Portopalo in Syracuse province Sicily.3: Italian: possibly a nickname from palo ‘pole’ used to denote a tall and thin person.4: Slovak (Paľo): from a pet form of the personal name Pavol an equivalent of Paul.

Santeramo : Italian: habitational name from a place called Santeramo in Colle in Bari province.

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