Given name & surname

Podesta

Podesta is a surname from Italian.

Original ItalianPodestà

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Podesta comes from Italian.

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How it developed

From Italian Podestà.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Podesta’s family of names

In English usage, Podesta as a surname was borrowed from the Italian form Podestà.

Walk Podesta’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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