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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Bonomo, an omen or well-wishing name meaning ‘(we hope that he will be a) good man’.
  • Italian : occupational name for various elected officials, for example in 12th-century Florence, who bore this title.

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