Machado is a surname of Portuguese origin meaning "axe" or "hatchet", with the surname attested as far back as the 12th century. It is commonly found in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Hispanic America, the Philippines, India, as well as former Portuguese colony of Macao in China and several former Portuguese territories in Africa. It is also attested among Sephardic Jews, while in Italy, the surname may be associated with Jewish heritage, particularly in Genova; Jews are attested in Genova since Roman times, and the surname is one of the most frequent found in documents from Genova's Synagogue. The Machados in India were populated after the conversion of Paravar race of Tuticorin to Catholicism by the Portuguese in the year 1532, a few years after they began trading in India.
Morandi is an Italian surname, which is derived from the given name Morando. The surname may refer to:
Nadal is a surname of Catalan, Occitan, and Venetian origin. It stems from the Latin word for birthday, natalis. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferraro is an occupational surname of Italian origin meaning blacksmith in Italian. Notable people with this surname include:
Molnár is a Hungarian surname meaning "miller". The name may be a loanword from Old Germanic, which is also the same in Slavic, Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian(млынар) Czech/Slovak(mlynár) Polish(młynarz) and also same in Finno-Ugric, Finnish/Estonian(miller) Hungarian(molnár); however, it is most likely derived from an ancient steppe language thats why it's found able in every Indo-European and Finno-Ugric languages.
Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. Therefore, Ackerman means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning. The Ashkenazi surname Ackerman sometimes refers to the town of Akkerman in Bessarabia, south-west of Odessa.
Bezerra is a Portuguese surname of Hebrew ancestry, popular among the Sephardi Jewish settlers in Northern Portugal. The name translates to 'heifer'. The first members of this family have origins in Ponte de Lima, the oldest Portuguese village, and can be traced back to the century XII.
Montanaro is a locational surname of Italian origin, meaning a person from Montanaro, Italy. Notable people with the surname include:
Secco is a surname of Italian origin, which means dry. It may refer to:
Gano is a name of French origin. It is an alternative version of the names Ganeau, Ganot, or Guéneau which derive from the Germanic word wan, meaning hope. The name came to America via the Huguenots.
Abruzzese is an Italian surname, meaning literally "Abruzzian" or "from Abruzzo". Notable people with the surname include:
Arends is a Dutch and Low German patronymic surname, meaning "son of Arend". It may refer to:
Ferrari is an Italian occupational surname, the plural form of Ferraro, meaning blacksmith.
Melia is a family name that may originate in the Caucasus state of Georgia, in Italy, or in Ireland. Melia Bergamin. The Georgian name is believed to be derived from the word melia, meaning "fox". Names derived from Melia are Meliava, Meliva, Melua, Meluava or Meladze. The Italian history may date back to early Rome. The Irish origins may be via alterations to the name O'Maille or O'Malley.
Miano is a surname. It is a southern Italian surname, which originated both as a shortened form of given names such as Emiliano or Damiano, as well as a toponymic surname from various settlements including Miano in Naples, Miano in Parma, Miano in Teramo, Miane in Veneto, and Mian in Belluno. It is also a Kikuyu surname, from the word mĩano "a small gourd used by a mũrogi to hold divining stones". In Italy, 899 families bore the surname Miano, with slightly less than half located in Sardinia. The 2010 United States census found 1,643 people with the surname Miano, making it the 17,239th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,531 (17,101st-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, roughly nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white.
Mandarino is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Reus is a Dutch, German and Catalan surname. (De) reus means "(the) giant" in middle and modern Dutch, and the surname has a descriptive origin. In Germany, the name may have its origin in the Middle Low German word ruse for a fish trap, or from a regional term reuse for a small stream or channel. People with this surname include:
Wanless is a surname of Scottish and Northeast English origin, derived from the Middle English and Older Scots word "wanles" meaning "luckless", "hopeless", "despairing".
Cipollone is a surname of Italian origin, a nickname for someone with a big head from the augmentative of the Italian word cipolla meaning "onion". Notable people with the surname include:
Bloise is a surname used in Italy, France and Spain. The surname is also frequently used by Sephardic Jews. It originates from the French word Blois which was a given name in the medieval period.
