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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from the personal name Bonora, an omen name meaning ‘(it was a) good time (when you were born)’, bestowed as an expression of gratitude, or perhaps signifying a child that was born in the early morning or one that had been long awaited, from buonora in the sense ‘finally’, ‘at last’.

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