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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly south) : from giardino ‘garden’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gardener (see Gardner), a topographic name for someone who lived by a garden, or a habitational name from any of various places named Giardino, for example in Bologna, or from Giardina Gallotti

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