Where the Taglialatela surname comes from
Taglialatela has its meaning written right into it: taglia la tela, “cuts the cloth.” It is an occupational nickname. It pointed to someone who worked with fabric, a tailor or a cloth cutter. Passed from father to son, the nickname of a founding ancestor in the Naples area became the family’s name.
Three centuries of traces
The surname is documented in the Naples area as early as the 1600s. Just outside Naples, in a town that had a different name back then, tradition even remembers a family of notaries. That land produced a bishop and, later, a priest who became a Protestant pastor. The PDF tells their stories.
Where the Taglialatelas live today
Taglialatela is a Campanian surname: about a thousand people carry it in Italy, almost all in Campania. Its heartland lies between Naples and Caserta, and in Mondragone it is one of the most common surnames in town. Small groups live in Lazio, Lombardy and Piedmont, the result of the migrations of the 1900s. The PDF has the region-by-region map and the countries around the world they reached.
FAQ
What does the surname Taglialatela mean?
“Cuts the cloth.” It is the occupational nickname of someone who worked with fabric, a tailor or a cloth cutter, which later became a family name. The surname keeps the gesture of the trade in its very sound.
Is Taglialatela a Neapolitan surname?
It is Campanian: its heartland lies between Naples, Caserta and Mondragone, where the great majority of the families still live. The groups in Lazio, Lombardy and Piedmont are more recent.
How old is the Taglialatela surname?
The written traces go back to the 1600s, when Taglialatela families already appear in the parish registers of the Naples area. Since then the surname has been handed down from generation to generation in this corner of Campania.
Are all Taglialatelas related?
Not necessarily. Sharing a surname doesn’t make two families related: each branch has its own story and its own town. To trace your own family’s story you need birth records and parish registers.
Who are some famous Taglialatelas?
The best-known is Pino Taglialatela, Napoli’s goalkeeper in the early 1990s. The PDF also tells of an 18th-century bishop and a 19th-century pastor and philosopher.
Is the Taglialatela surname noble?
No. It most likely comes from a humble occupational nickname, and the old heraldic collections record no Taglialatela family of note.
Is there a Taglialatela family coat of arms?
No. There is no coat of arms for the Taglialatela surname, and the archives know of no noble house with this name.
Where should you look for Taglialatela ancestors?
In Campania, civil records begin around 1809, under the Kingdom of Naples. Before that, you search the parish registers, where Taglialatelas already appear in the 1600s.
