• Italian Naming Traditions - a strong custom in Italy that determines how children are named.
• Common prefixes of Italian surnames. Prefixes like da, di, lo, le etc. (ex. Di Caprio) and where they originate.
• Straight Dope: On Italian last names beginning with "de," "del," or "della" a classic response from Cecil Adams - "Don't get your hopes up, your lordship... more often the prefix is merely the equivalent of the Irish Mac or O, the English suffix -son (e.g., Johnson), or the Norman-French Fitz... it indicates descent, as in de Stefano, "son of Steven."
• Italy Surname Distribution Map - Graphically displays your Italian Surname request on a map of Italy, sometimes called an Italian Genealogy Map. Enter a last name & see where people with that surname appear in Italy & Sicily.
• Changing Names: Italian Women Keep Their Own Surname Upon Marriage - Women in Italy don’t change their last-names when they marry.
• Italian Women Keep their Birth Surname - Sometimes both surnames are written usually separated by in.
• Married and maiden names -
• Everybody has a name / Tutti hanno un nome
• Pagine Bianche Italian Phone Book - Italian White Pages extensive listings of Surnames in EACH Comune (those with unlisted phone numbers are not on this list)
• InfoSpace People Finder for USA - find people with your Italian surname in the United States of America.
• Worldwide People Search by Infospace - in case you have trouble locating your surname in the Italy lookup see what turns up worldwide on your surname or use this link: Infospace/World.
• Distribution of your Surname from the USA Census Database - Enter a surname into the form & you'll get a map of the USA showing the distribution of people with this surname per each census year.
• PlacesNamed.com Surname Statistics - In the Search Box on the UPPER left hand side of the page - use their "Go to" Search to find out the frequency found and other statistics on your Last Name in the USA.
• Search for how many people in the U.S. have your name &/or surname - The USA Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 88,799 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States.
• L'origine dei cognomi - Origin & meaning of your surname. Delightful site. Click on the initial at the top of page and find a description of your surname. Use translation sites (on-site list) if you don't read Italian.
• Le dictionnaire des noms de famille - by Jean Tosti (in French so use an online translation program for the gist of it) It has a good number of Italian Surnames, which are found in France.
• Italian Surnames - Ethymology and Origin of the Surname also called the Family Name.
• Why was America named after Amerigo Vespucci? - by Cecil Adams.
• NAMES, PERSONAL from LDS - Understanding surnames & given names can help you find and identify your ancestors in the records from the Mormons Italy Research Guide.
• From rec.heraldry FAQs - New to Heraldry? The chances are very good that you do not have any claim on any actual arms. Most people in the world do not. news:rec.heraldry
• Yet another family crest lookup - For "FUN" only do NOT pay any of these heraldry people ..if you are Blue-Blood...you already know it, the crest, lineage and other trappings were already explained to you by the time you were 12 years old AND you were the first born male in the noble family.
• Heraldry Clipart - "For FUN ONLY" - over 3000 pieces of Heraldry Clipart (some Italian Surnames) included here "for fun" only.... because *IF* you are directly descended from someone who was granted arms by some heraldic authority then you "may have" some claim to those arms within the jurisdiction of that authority.
• Family Names - A family name, or surname, is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs.
• A Brief Introduction to the History of Names - © 1997 Kristine Elliott
• Family name or Surname - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• The History of Family Names - Patronymics, Place Names, Occupational names, Nicknames and other background information on names in general.
• Origins and Meanings of Names -very scholarly presentation by Lionel E. Mayrand.
• Italian Names (or A Rosa By Any Other Name) Usually, a wife acquires the nickname (soprannomi) of her husband, even though in Italy married women keep their maiden names as their legal names. (Surprise! Men don't acquire their wive's nicknames! by Claudia Mazzoni & Peter Crawford.
• Nicknames in Italian-American Culture - by Sharon Leggio
• Changing Immigrant Names - "We know from experience that records of entry of many aliens into the United States contain assumed or incorrect names and other errors."
• Why was my ancestor's name changed during Immigration? - #22 from PIE FAQs.
• "What's In A Name" - interesting, personal story by Andrea Bacigalupa.
• Gens Labo Dictionary of Italian Names - in Italian (Use translation sites if you don't read Italian, to get the "gist" of the meaning, or ask on the Message Board & occasionally an Italian Speaker has time to answer.
• Significato dei nomi propri di persona - How to spell Italian First Names from L'onomastica. In Italian. (Use translation sites if you don't read Italian.)
• Onomastica: Significato dei nomi propri di persona - the meaning of over 2,900 names in Italian.
• L'Origine dei Nomi - find your name in the database (click the initial at the top) lots of popups so use a blocker or disable scripts and activeX.
• Behind the Name: Italian Names - Italian Names listed here are used in Italy and other Italian-speaking regions. The site has a good search engine for all names in case you want to do a search.
• Tell me your name - the meaning of Italian & Sicilian names by Angelo e Mario Grifasi.
• Italian First Name Translator - many Italian immigrants changed their first names when they came to this country. If you don't find your ancestors name it's because only typical names are in the database so keep researching and look on other websites too.
• Italian Given Names and their English Equivelents compiled by Ken Johnston who lists the references he used in compiling the list with special thanks to Marie Roth from PIE.
• English Versions of Italian Names - DOWNLOAD .pdf and/or also text versions of English and Italian names translated into Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Names.
• Look up the Translation of your name in Italian & Latin - use the computer translation links page of this website to get the "gist" of anything in Italian or another language. Also, try to find the name in the Italian Genealogy Occupation links on that link above.
• ITALIAN BABY NAMES - From Michael San Filippo. He put up a good list & also a pronunciation guide to the names.
• Baby Names From Around the World | Italian - from Baby Zone.
• Baby Names Finder - Go to "Advanced Baby Names Search" in Category choose: ITALIAN, gender, starting letter and more...
• Huge List of Ancient & Modern Italian Names - Everything you want to know about Italian Given Names by Steve Russo from the COMUNES OF ITALY archives: June 2000, week 4 (#225)
• Rare Given Names in Early Italian Records - not all Italian given names have religious or classical roots. Many names encountered in older records are almost whimsical, and some cannot be translated into Latin or any other language by Louis Mendola.
• Italian Names & Surnames - A historical Perspective - overview of the history of Italian Names plus their origins. Includes lists of the Popes and Rulers of Italy from a collection of names compiled by Kate Monk. © January 1997. also see: Italian Surnames - come from many sources. For example, those of Sicily include Arabic, Norman, French (Angevin), Austrian (Bourbon) and Spanish.
• Roman Nomenclature - Naming of Male Roman Citizens during the Republic.
• The Latinization of Names in the Middle Ages - on overview of personal names, surnames and place names.
• 4300 Citizen of Pisa, 1228, by Enrica Salvatori - A transcription of men's Latin names from an alliance signed in 1228.
• Italian Given Names and Surnames - from the Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532 a project of Brown University, Rhode Island.
• Feminine Given Names from Thirteenth Century - These names appear in a tax roll of the city of Perugia taken in 1285.
• Masculine Names from Thirteenth Century Pisa by Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith)
• Family names appearing in the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427 - from the database of tax information for the city of Florence in 1427-1429 (c. 10,000 records) based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Principal Investigators, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480 presented by Brown University.
• Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427, by Josh Mittleman.
• Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names, by Josh Mittleman and Brian Scott (Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek).
• Fifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names - Family Names Alphabetically by Sara L. Uckelman
• First names from Florence, 1427 from the Online Catasto of 1427. Detailed analysis of over 8,000 names.
• Italian Renaissance Men's Names - by Ferrante LaVolpe over 8000 men's names from the Catasto (census) of Florence taken in the years 1427-1429.
• Italian Renaissance Women's Names by Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale (Jo Lori Drake).
• 15th Century Italian Men's Names by Brian Scott (Talan Gwynek).
• Mercator's Place Names of Italy in 1554 - by Maridonna Benvenuti (Andrea Hicks) researcher at The Academy of Saint Gabriel.
• Second Surnames, or Sub-Surnames 
• Medieval Slavic Roots of Italian & Sicilian Surnames - information on the medieval Slavs who settled in Arabic-ruled Sicily and southern mainland Italy during the middle ages by Michal Warczakowski. 
• Social Security Administration's Popular Baby Name list - Search through the years to see how things change.. 
• U.S. Census Bureau name List from the 1990 Census - A list of First Names, Last Names and a Search, which shows frequency ranking.
• Italian Occupation Names & other Genealogy Terms - go to the Italian Genealogy and Italian & Latin translations page of this site.  If you are not a native speaker you should use many references when doing translations as it will help you understand the "gist" of it better

 If you have a non-commercial Italian Name list or Website on the History of Italian Surnames or Names from Italy or Sicily send the link to me for consideration

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