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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : occupational name for a deacon or for someone in the service of a deacon, from the southern dialect word iacono, jacono ‘deacon’, derived from Late Latin diaconus, from Greek diakonos ‘servant’, with the definite article lo.

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