Festa

Borrowed from Italian Festa.

Festa (plural Festas)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Festa is the 11925^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2626 individuals. Festa is most common among White (93.91%) individuals.

• Fates, TAFEs, fates, feast, feats, fetas

Probably from the noun festa, but also seen in Medieval compounds such as Cattafesta, Carafesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.sta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: Fè‧sta

Festa m or f by sense

1. a surname

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Festa”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 569.

• sfate