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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : derogatory nickname from Spanish chanflón ‘rough’, ‘crude’, ‘coarse’.
  • Italian : from Calabrian cianfruni, the name of an old gold coin, applied possibly as a metonymic occupational name for a moneyer or as a nickname for a rich or miserly man.

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