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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : habitational name for an inhabitant of Soria in Castile, from the adjective soriano ‘from Soria’.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from Soriano Calabro in Vibo Valentia province or Soriano nel Cimino in Viterbo, or of the same derivation as 1.

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