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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly southern) : from the personal name Onofrio, derived from Latin Onnuphrius, borrowed from an epithet of the Egyptian god Osiris, Onnophris ‘always glad’. It gained popularity as a Christian name in Italy with the cult of St. Onofrio, a 5th-century Egyptian martyr.

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