What is the Meaning of my Italian Last Name

During my research on the history of Italian Surnames, I came across this cool list of Fifty Italian Surname Meanings. See if your surname is on the list. You can also search our site for Gallo, Ricci, Bruno, Ferrari, Bianchi, Conti, Gallo, Greco, Russo, Esposito, Romano and Columbo for more information on the top 12 Italian Surnames.

There are more than 350,000 Surnames in Italy, more than any other country. So don’t be surprised if your name is not on the list.

What is the meaning of my Italian last name? See if you are on this list of 50 most popular.

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1. Vitali:Italian last name which means “Life”.

2. Ferrari: Italian name which means “Blacksmith”.

3. Angelo:An Italian masculine given name that means “Angel”.

4. Amato:A family name of Italian origin that means “Beloved” or “Dear one”.

5. Venturi:Italian last name which means “Good luck”.

6. Tedesco:Italian last name which means “German”.

7. Riva:Italian last name which means “Someone who lived by a wharf in a port or on a bank or a river”.

8. Zappa:Italian last name which means “Farmer”.

9. Guerriero:The name is derived from the word “Guerre” which means “War”.

10. Ricci:Italian last name which means “Curly.”

11. Fontana:Italian last name which means “Someone who lived near a spring”.

12. Zunino:Italian last name which means “A person from northern Italy”.

13. Barone:Italian last name which means “Free man”.

14. Nicastro:Italian last name which means “New camp”.

15. Trevisan:Italian last name which means “Alchemist”.

16.Bruno:Italian last name which means “Brown”.

17. Favero:Italian last name which means “Craftsman”.

18. Quattrocchi:From the Italian Quattro meaning “Four”, and “Occhi” meaning “Eyes”.

19. Conti:Italian last name which means “Order” or “Control”.

20. Schiavone:Italian last name which means “Slavs”.

21. Rana:Italian last name which means “Frog”.

22. Uberti:Italian last name which means “Manufacturer”.

23. Pedrotti:Italian name derived from “Rock”.

24. Carbone:Italian for a person with dark features, a name that means “Coal”.

25. Pecora:It refers to someone from Southern Italy”

26.Desantis:Italian last name which means “Holy”.

27. Nicotera:Italian last name which means “Miracle of victory”.

28. Paternoster:Derived from the Latin “Pater Noster” that means “Our father”.

29. Ferrari:Italian last name which means “Blacksmith”.

30. Milano:It refers to someone who is from “Milan”.

31.Luciano:Italian name derived from Latin”s Lucianus meaning “Light”.

32. Udine:It means “A city in northeastern Italy”.

33. Viola:Italian last name which means “Violet”.

34. Bianchi:Italian last name which means “White”.

35. Colombo:Italian last name which means “Dove or Dove keeper”.

36.Vestri:A diminutive form of Silvestro”.

37. Messana:It means “From the Ancient Italian island of Sicily”.

38. Orlando:From Italian origin, there is an Italian former football player who holds the surname.

39. Farina:The Italian word for “Flour”.

40.Russo:Italian name which means “Nobility”.

41. Napolitano:Italian name used to refer to someone who is from Napoli (Naples)”.

42. Tocci:An Italian personal name”.

43. Siciliano:Derived from Sicilia”.

44. Evangelista:The Italian form of “Evangelist”.

45. Lambo:Italian last name which means “Realm”.

46. Fiore:Italian last name which means “Flower”.

47. Orsini:Italian last name which means “Bear like or strong”.

48. Vinci:It means “of Vinci”.

49. Notaro:From Southern Italy, an occupational name for “A clerk”.

50.Longo:Italian last name which means “Tall”.

Here’s another link to Italian last names 

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