If you have any of these last names, you have Italian origins

The surnames are the hereditary part of our name, which indicates the origins of our family. Depending on each culture, los surnames They are used in different ways: using one or more than one, and, in some cases, they can modify the family situation and even the sex of the person. In Spain especially, the origin of surnames shows the history and the different cultures that have passed through the Peninsula.

A job, a place, your father’s name or a nickname could be the origin of your last name

The most common in Spain have origen judo, like Domnguez or García; others date back to the Celts, such as Mndez or Quiroga. The most common origins of surnames were anciently derived from Father’s name, For example, if your father’s name was Gonzalo, your last name would be Gonzlez. Likewise, our identification could come from the famous mottos or concrete circumstances, such as: Estirado, Bravo or Expsito, the latter came from the word exposed which is how children abandoned on the street are defined.

There are also surnames according to ancient craft, coming from the Middle Ages, where social groups existed depending on the guild to which you worked. That is why there are surnames such as: Herrero, Criado, Zapatero or Escribano, among many others. Finally, there are toponymic surnames, based on the origins where our ancestors emerged. Seville, Ojeda, Costa, Valle…

Thousands of people in Spain with surnames of Italian origin

Based on all this, in addition to Spain, we find many people who come from from other places in the world, such as Italy, our neighboring country. The most used surnames in Italy are Abatino, Bianco, Bianchi, Degli Sposti, Fiore, Giannoli, Natalino Soracchi, Soracco, Zanella, Zanoli, Zannier, Vani, Vannucci, Vannicelli, Vanno or Vanetto, among a few others. As for Spain, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the most used Italian surnames in Spain are Expsito, Ferrera, De Lucas, Marco and Roman.

In fact, there are almost 50,000 people who have Roman as first surname and 46,000 as second, concentrated mainly in Extremadura, Castilla y León and Andaluca. In the case of the surname Ferrera, more than 10,000 people have this surname within our borders. As mentioned before, De Lucas is one of those surnames of toponymic origin, specifically it comes from Lucania, currently known as Basilicata. This is one of the most widespread in northern Spain.

All this is due to the Italian migration in our country, which has left a large number of surnames that are preserved to this day. Between the surnames of Italian origin in Spain we find:

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