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    The surname Valla

    An Italian surname, carried by 546 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V400

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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). Valla is more common than 75.3% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Valla, a variant of Valle. * Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Valla, from vall (“pasture, meadow”). * Borrowed from Albanian Valla, a variant of Vallas.

    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 546 people named Valla in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 565,468 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 546.

    #40,144
    rank among US surnames
    546
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #38,141)

    Who is named Valla

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

    79% of people named Valla identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 16%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Valla

    Valla has the Soundex code V400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V400.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Valla come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Valla, a variant of Valle. * Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Valla, from vall (“pasture, meadow”). * Borrowed from Albanian Valla, a variant of Vallas.
    How common is the surname Valla?
    546 people in the United States had the surname Valla in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 565,468 Americans. It ranked 40,144th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Valla?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Valla identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Valla getting more or less common?
    About as common. 546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 546 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.