Personal names of immediate ancestors were often used as surnames among which saints names were the most common so Giordano Jordan Giuffrida and Giuffré Godfrey Vitale Vitus or Vitalus Di Mauro son of Maurice Basile and Vasile Basil Di Stefano Stephens son Di Gaetano Gaetans son Di Giovanni and Vanni Johns son Di Salvo Salvatores son Bruno brown-haired but also a saints name.

Sicilian boy names. A form of Tullius. Create good names for games profiles brands or social networks. Thus Curto became Short and Molinaro moh-lih-NAH-roh became Miller.

Some of these names will change as the person gets older sometimes the young boys name is shortened to a more fun loving family nickname. Candida CAHN-did-ah Carries the connotation white or pure. Pages in category Sicilian male given names The following 2 pages are in this category out of 2 total.

To Charley which then was modified to Charles or Carl. Alessandro meaning defender of men. And many surnames were translated literally.

Check out our list below to find even more popular names. For example Castello in Sicilian is pronounced kah-STELL-oh but Americans thought it should be spelled Costello. Some names were converted phonetically into English spellings.

It was the name of a famous king. Originally a Tuscan contracted form of Augustina and a Sicilian variant of Agustina in the English-speaking world this name is now generally understood as a feminization of Austin. Calogero is from the Greek kalos geron meaning good elder.

Azade m Medieval Italian History Ecclesiastical. Submit your funny nicknames and cool gamertags and copy the best from the list. From the first group derive Vitale Giuffrida Di Mauro Orlando Di Stefano Di Salvo Basile Leonardi etc.