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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name from the Campanian city of Naples, now the third largest city in Italy. The place name, Italian Napoli, Latin Neapolis, is from Greek nea ‘new’ + polis ‘city’. It was an ancient Greek colony taken over by the Romans in the 4th century bc.

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