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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian and Greek (Ananias) : from the personal name Anania, Greek Ananias, from Hebrew Hananyah, ‘answered by the Lord’. This was the name of a character mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 5), who was struck dead for lying.

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