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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a short form of the personal name Benevento, or the variant Bon(i)vento.
  • Portuguese and Galician : possibly from Galician and Portuguese vento ‘wind’ or in some cases a habitational name from any of various places in Galicia and Portugal called or called with Vento.

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