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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : occupational name from mangano ‘mangle’ (a device consisting of a pair of rollers used to press textiles and clothes) or ‘calender’ (a similar device used in making paper). The term mangano also denoted a bucket elevator (used for raising water from a well) and any of various other devices, including a catapult.
  • Italian : habitational name from Mangano, a place in Catania province, Sicily.

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