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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name, a short form of Viviano (Latin Vivianus, a derivative of vivus ‘living’, ‘alive’).
  • Italian : occasionally a habitational name from any of the places so named, for example in Como and Reggio nell’Emilia.

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