Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : occupational name from mangano ‘mangle’ (a device consisting of a pair of rollers used to press textiles and clothes) or ‘calender’ (a similar device used in making paper). The term mangano also denoted a bucket elevator (used for raising water from a well) and any of various other devices, including a catapult.
- Italian : habitational name from Mangano, a place in Catania province, Sicily.