Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for an innkeeper, from taverna ‘inn’, ‘tavern’.
  • Italian : habitational name from any of the many places in southern Italy named with this word, in particular one in Catanzaro province.
  • Italian : Possibly also a shortened form of Greek Tavernakis, Tavern(i)aris ‘tavernkeeper’.