Lombard surnames are those found in the region of Lombardy in Italy, as well as in some parts of the rest of the country and the Italian diaspora. The most frequent Lombard surnames are those coming from well-defined cities and municipalities, from toponymic adjectives and especially from residential locations that define specific places within a settlement. [1][2]
History of Lombard surnames
The origin of Lombard surnames has its roots in the Middle Ages, a time when society had many social layers and surnames served to identify not only family membership but also other geographical origin and professions[1]
Lombard naming conventions
Lombard surnames associated with places in a town
Lombard surnames of toponymic origin
Lombard surnames of occupational origin
Lombard surnames associated with a title
Lombard surnames of animal origin
Lombard surnames of descriptive origin
The most common Lombard surnames
The most common Lombard surnames[3] are:
- Colombo 45.546
- Ferrari 30.108
- Rossi 28.608
- Bianchi 21.377
- Sala 18.724
- Villa 17.920
- Cattaneo 16.700
- Brambilla 15.400
- Riva 14.797
- Fumagalli 14.372
- Galli 13.157
- Locatelli 13.006
- Pozzi 11.172
- Mariani 10.840
- Rota 10.834
- Gatti 10.746
- Beretta 10.550
- Barbieri 9.147
- Pagani 9.033
- Ferrario 8.834
Famous people with Lombard surnames
- Cristoforo Colombo, explorer and discoverer of America.[4] He was born in 1451 in Genoa to Domenico, a merchant, and Susanna Quezzi. Destined to launch the Modern Age with his extraordinary geographical discoveries. On October 12, 1492, he landed on the island of San Salvador, Bahamas, convinced he was in India. Three more voyages and as many discoveries of a hitherto unknown New World would follow.
- Gino Strada, founder of Emergency, a humanitarian association founded to bring aid to civilian victims of wars and poverty.[5] born in 1994. Gino Strada was born in Sesto San Giovanni, in the province of Milan, on April 21, 1948. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the State University of Milan and specialized in Emergency Surgery. To complete his training as a physician-surgeon, he lived in the United States for 4 years in the 1980s, where he worked on heart and heart-lung transplant surgery at Stanford and Pittsburgh Universities. He then moved to England and South Africa, where he did training periods at Harefield Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. In 1988 he decided to apply his experience in emergency surgery to the care of the war wounded. In the following years, until 1994, he worked with the Geneva-based International Red Cross in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Peru, Djibouti, Somalia, and Bosnia.
- Valentino Rossi, motorcycle racer,[6] racing driver and sports executive. Among the most successful riders in motorcycling, by virtue of the nine world titles he has won, he is the only rider in the history of motorcycle racing to have won the title in four different classes: 125, 250, 500 and MotoGP.
See also
- Italian surnames
- Venetian surnames
- Piedmontese surnames
- Roman surnames
- Sicilian surnames
- Corsican surnames
- Sardinian surnames
- Apulian surnames
- French surnames
- Catalan surnames
- Slovene surnames
- Austrian surnames
- German surnames
- Medieval surnames
- American surnames
- Canadian surnames
- Sephardic Jewish surnames
- Alsatian surnames
- Irish surnames
- British surnames
- New Zealand surnames
Explore more about Lombard surnames
- Tracing Italian Roots: What Sites Are Out There? on the MyHeritage blog
- Surnames in Lombardia, Italy
- From Venezia to Catania: the Basics of Italian Research webinar at Legacy Family Tree Webinars
- Andiamo! Finding Your Italian Family webinar at Legacy Family Tree Webinars