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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : nickname from canino ‘canine’.
  • Southern Italian : nickname from Sicilian caninu ‘beautiful’, ‘dear’, from Arabic ̣hanūn ‘soft’, ‘sweet’.
  • Southern Italian : nickname from a diminutive of cane ‘dog’.

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