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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : according to Caracausi, from the personal name Mangiero, (Latin forms Mangerius or Mangiarinus), from a nickname derived from mangiare ‘to eat’, or alternatively a variant of the Germanic personal name Malgerius, composed of the elements Amal + gār, gēr ‘spear’.

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