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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from cento ‘hundred’ + anno ‘year’, i.e. a hundred years, a century. In Sicily this is the common name of the agave or century plant, and in some instances this may have been a topographic name for someone who lived where the plant grew.

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