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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : ethnic name from a reduced form of Aragona ‘Aragon’, now part of Spain but an independent state up to 1479; the surname arrived in Italy in the wake of the Aragonese conquest and domination of southern Italy which began in 1282.
  • Italian : habitational name from Aragona in Agrigento province, Sicily.

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