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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from agnello ‘lamb’, applied either as a nickname for a meek and mild person or as a personal name, which was popular because the lamb led to the slaughter was a symbol of the suffering innocence of Christ.
  • Italian : in Sicily, a habitational name from a place named Agnello.

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