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Early Origins of the Rotella family

The surname Rotella was first found in Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte, Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont), a territorial division of northern Italy at the foot of the Alps consisting of the provinces of Alessandria, Cuneo, Novara and Turin. Later Aosta and Vercelli were added and still later, Asti. History is related back to 49 B.C. The house of Savoy rose in 1000 A.D. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time, at the beginning of recorded history, was of itself a great distinction and indicative of noble ancestry.

Early History of the Rotella family

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Rotella Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Perona, Perone, Peroni, Pirona, Pirone, Pironi, Perrone and many more.

Early Notables of the Rotella family

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Rotella Ranking

In the United States, the name Rotella is the 15,682nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. [1]

Migration of the Rotella family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Angel and James Perona, who were both naturalized in Indiana between the years 1892 and 1906; Josheph Perona, who was naturalized in Illinois in 1894.


Contemporary Notables of the name Rotella (post 1700) +

  • Perry Francis Rotella (b. 1963), American businessman, senior vice president, supply chain risk executive and chief information officer of Verisk Analytics
  • Sebastian Rotella, American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist
  • Mark Rotella (b. 1967), American author and Senior Editor at Publishers Weekly
  • Carlo Rotella, American 2006 Guggenheim Fellowsh Award winning non-fiction writer, and academic
  • Philip J. Rotella, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1984 [2]
  • Franco Rotella (1966-2009), Italian professional footballer who made over 300 league appearances from 1983 to 1998
  • Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (1918-2006), Italian artist and poet from Catanzaro, Calabria


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, March 9) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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