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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • probably Basque (Umaña) : variant of Omaña, topographic name from Basque oma ‘scallions seed’.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from any of various places named with this word, feminine form of umano ‘human’, Latin humanus.

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