Scamilla: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Some records give Escamilla; others give Scamilla. Both point to the same Spanish family name. It is a place-based name: “From Escamilla”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Without the “e” of Escamilla, Scamilla is a simpler written form of the same name.

Heraldry and the Scamilla name

Arms linked to Escamilla and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Scamilla family name pack.