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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : occupational name for a bell ringer, sexton, or sacristan, from an agent derivative of campana ‘bell’.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from a place named Campanaro, for example in Sicily and Campania.

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