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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a short form of Almirante, an occupational or honorific name (or possibly a nickname for someone with a self-important manner), from Spanish almirante ‘admiral’, which is from Arabic al amīr ‘commander’.
  • Portuguese : possibly a habitational name from any of the places so named, from mirante ‘watch tower’, ‘look out’, or from the same word in the sense ‘watch’, ‘vigilance’, ‘sentry duty’.

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