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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name from a place in Calabria named Magisano (dialect forms Maisano,Majisano), from a Latin word, Magisius or Magissius influenced by Calabrian majisi ‘of (the month of) May’.

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