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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from a short form of the personal name Buoncambio, a compound of buono ‘good’ + cambio ‘change’ (from Latin cambiare); this was an omen name often bestowed on a child born soon after the death of a sibling.

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