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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : habitational name from a place called Mandracchia, named with medieval Greek mandrakia, plural of mandrakion ‘yard’, a diminutive of mandra ‘enclosure’. It may also be a topographic name for someone living by an enclosure. Mandraki is a common place name in Greece, and Mandrakis is also found as a Greek family name.

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