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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name from Maenza in Latina province, probably so named from the Latin personal name Magius or Maius, or from any of various places so named, from medieval Latin maiensis ‘(payment) in the month of May’, presumably denoting some sort of tax obligation.

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