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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a pet form of Maiore, a distinguishing nickname from Latin maior ‘bigger’, ‘major’.
  • Southern Italian : possibly a habitational name for someone from Maiori in Salerno province, from an adjectival form of the place name.

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