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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : probably an occupational name from Arabic ̣tābūna, denoting a kind of hollowed-out hearth in which a fire was kept alight.
  • Italian (Sicily) : nickname from Sicilian tabbuni ‘silly’, ‘foolish’.

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