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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name from any of several places in southern Italy named Amendola or Mendola, named with the dialect word amendola ‘almond’, ‘almond tree’ (from Greek amygdalea), or a topographic name for someone who lived by an almond tree or trees.

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