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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Spanish : metonymic occupational name for a bell-ringer or bell-maker, from Italian and Spanish campana ‘bell’ (abbreviated from the Latin phrase vasa campana ‘Campanian vessels’, since bells were first produced in Campania).

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