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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from a place so named.
  • Sicilian : from Old Sicilian ternu ‘having three syllables’, presumably a nickname bestowed on someone who used long words.
  • Spanish : nickname from tierno ‘tender’, ‘soft’ (Latin tener).

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