The story
- Italian · borrowed fromdi
- English todayDiPalma
From Italian di and Palma, originally spelled Di Palma. The Italian surname Palma itself ultimately comes from the word palma (“palm”). "Di Palma" could possibly have originated as a way to identify that a person was from one of a few places in Italy called Palma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.