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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : topographic name for someone who lived on a plain or plateau, Italian piano (Latin planum, from the adjective planus ‘flat’, ‘level’).
  • Italian : nickname from the adjective piano in the sense ‘unassuming’.

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