Welcome to the new home of the Italian Surname Database. This site is still under construction. Meanwhile please feel free to visit our old site at Italian Surname Database . If you would like to have me add your surnames to this database, click here and use the feedback form. You may also send us […]
For an updated tutorial on how to use this site see Pagine Bianche – Italian White Pages Updated . A great resource for looking up Italian surnames and locating people in Italy is to use the on line Pagine Bianche (White Pages). This telephone directory also links to the Pagine Gialle or the Yellow Pages so you […]
For several years we have been extracting records from various Comuni in the province of Reggio Calabria. We have also been linking the actual images of births, marriages and deaths whenever possible. This of course has not been an easy task as we are currently a non profit site. But thanks to the wonderful volunteers […]
Seems Italy has a law preventing parents from naming their children with what they consider “ridiculous or shameful” first names to protect them from being teased or hindering him from developing “serene interpersonal relationships”. This article, written in Dec 2007 By Philip Pullella caught my attention as it outlines one families battle to name their […]
Did you know you can tell a lot about an Italian Surnames origin by it’s ending? Or that generally speaking surnames in Southern regions of Italy end in vowels but as one moves North many surnames will end in consonants? This can possibility be attributed to the fact that Northern Italy borders have changed several […]
Surnames of Greek Origins Found in Southern Italy Here’s a list of some Italian Surnames of Greek origins found primarily in Southern Italy: Accorinti Alampi Alampo Alessandrini Arcidiaco Arconti Arcuri Basile Biasi Bova Calogero Cardea Cipri Colella Coletta Cutroneo Delfino DeMitri Eliseo Erasmo Fallace Fanara Greca Grechi Greco Iannopollo Mandica Maniaci Megale Megali Narciso Narisi […]
Leave it to Nick Gombash of Hungary Exchange to trace Lady Gaga’s roots – especially since she has both Sicilian & German roots! Lady Gaga was born Stefani Germanotta and whose parents both shared Italian ancestry. Lady Gaga’s paternal grandfather was Joseph Anthony Germanotta. He was born to Italian immigrants from Naso, Messina, Sicily.. I […]
