Appendix:Italian surnames - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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Italian surnames are often easy to recognize because most end in a vowel, and many of them have been derived from descriptive nicknames.

Many extinct surnames have an obvious patronymic and toponymic import. Patronymic surnames include: De Benedetto, De Biasi, De Federico, De Filippo, De Fiore, De Francesco, De Giuseppe, De Gregorio, De Lazzaro, De Salvo, De Vico, Depetri, and De Petruzzo.

The prefix "di" (meaning "of" or "from") is often attached to an given name to form a patronym. di Benedetto, for example, is the Italian equivalent of Be. D' means of or son of. It can also be from the town of.

Sicilians are darker than Northern Italians, their ancestry reflecting a mixed heritage of peoples passing through the island. The Greeks, the Moors, the Normans and the Romans were among these peoples whose presence helped to create what we now think of as Sicilian culture.

Draghi is an Italian surname (from the plural of drago, "dragon") and may refer to: Antonio Draghi (1634–1700), Italian composer.

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Surnames ending in –isi, as in Troisi, indicate a Neapolitan or Sicilian background; surnames ending in –aloro, as in Favaloro, are Sicilian; surnames ending in –igo, such as Barbarigo, are Venetian; surnames ending in –utti, as in Zanutti, are from Friuli Venezia Giulia; and those ending in –iu, such as Mongiu, are ...

Italians usually have one given name and one surname (no middle name in most cases). Spanish and Portuguese people are the ones who do have two family names, one they inherit from their father and another from their mother.

Bianchi, a plural of bianco ("white" in Italian), is an Italian surname.