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Gerla is specific to Milan and Gaggiano in Milan and Pavia, Gerli is typically Lombard, Milanese in particular, Milan, Melzo, Pioltello, Binasco, Cuggiono and Sedriano and Zelo Buon Persico in Lodi, with small stocks also in Tuscany, Gerlini has a small Tuscan and a Roman stock, Gerlo is specific to Vigevano in the Pavia area and the Milanese, Gerlone, extremely rare, seems to be specific to Grottaglie in the Taranto area, Gerloni, much more rare, is from the Milan area of Brescia, these surnames should derive , directly or through hypochoristic or augmentative, from nicknames originated from the Italian term gerla, in turn derived from the late Latin word gerula (conical basket with two straps into which the arms are inserted to support it behind the shoulders), characteristic of the high countries mountain and northern Italy, in Lombardy the dialectal term la gerla or, in Brianza, el gerlo is the basket with which the baker boy was going to deliver the home-to-house bread, it could therefore be assumed that with this nickname the very type of trade was identified, it must also be considered that in the Milanese the basket was a unit of measurement of volume equal to one tenth of the capacity of a wagon. additions provided by G. Gerlini The family tradition has it that our surname [Gerlini] derives from a very specific fact: the name would have been given to two children abandoned in a basket before a religious institution.
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