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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a short form of the personal name Bonag(g)iunta, literally ‘good addition’, a name commonly given in the late Middle Ages to a long-awaited or much-desired son. Found throughout Italy, the name is common only in the south, specifically in Calabria and Sicily.

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