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    The surname Pala

    An Italian place surname, carried by 623 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pala is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Pala, a topographic surname for someone who lived near an upland meadow. * Borrowed from Catalan Palà, a habitational surname from a town near Barcelona; also from pala (“shovel”). * Borrowed from Polish Pala, from a vernacular name of the given name Pawel, Polish form of the name Paul. * Borrowed from Czech Pála, a nickname for an obstinate person, from Moravian dialect pała (“head”). * Borrowed from Turkish Pala, from pala (“scimitar”), from Italian pala (“shovel”). * Borrowed from Hindi पाला (pālā).

    Pala is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 623 people named Pala in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 474.

    #35,993
    rank among US surnames
    623
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.4%
    change since 2000 (was #42,983)

    Who is named Pala

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    58% of people named Pala identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 58%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 20%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Palas

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Achola Pala
      A Kenyan anthropologist, sociologist, and women's policy specialist

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pala

    Pala has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pala come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Pala, a topographic surname for someone who lived near an upland meadow. * Borrowed from Catalan Palà, a habitational surname from a town near Barcelona; also from pala (“shovel”). * Borrowed from Polish Pala, from a vernacular name of the given name Pawel,…
    How common is the surname Pala?
    623 people in the United States had the surname Pala in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. It ranked 35,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pala?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Pala identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Pala?
    Achola Pala, a Kenyan anthropologist, sociologist, and women's policy specialist.
    Where is the surname Pala most common?
    Wikidata records people named Pala in Kenya.
    What type of surname is Pala?
    Pala is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pala getting more or less common?
    More common. 474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 623 in 2010, up 31%.