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    Cognomi dati agli orfani per regione in Italia

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    2. CorkBeoWriter on

      I’m confused, is this like a John “Snow” situation?

      Why would orphans abandon their parent’s name just because they’re dead?

      Is this for specially **abandoned** children where the parents are unknown? Is it formalised by regional Italian language? So many questions lol.

    3. SirDaeltanFernagdor on

      It is also interesting to think about the etymology of those names: a few of them just mean “found” or variations of it (TrovĂČ, Trovato); others mean “abandoned”, with significant variation (Esposto, Esposito, Degli Esposti, Proietti); others invoke God (Diotisalvi, Diotallevi, Deodato, Diodato, Diolaiuti, Delaiti) or His home (Casadei, Cadei)…

    4. TailleventCH on

      I remember Umberto Eco explaining his surname was an abandoned child one. Apparently, it’s the acronym for “ex caelis oblatus”, Latin for “given by the sky”, and it was put in church registers for such children.

    5. GiuseppeScarpa on

      And the award for the *most tactful spoiler* goes to Siracusa and east Sicily with D’Ignoti which means exactly (child) “of unknown” (parents) as in the sentence “figlio di ignoti”

    8. Holiday_Neck_6241 on

      Fun fact: reading old archives from my small hometown in Campania, I found an abandoned child who—instead of “Esposito” or other variations—was given the name “Lorenzo de Medici”
      I guess there were some fans of Renaissance Florence

    9. bronzinorns on

      It’s also a reason why there are so many people whose surname is Martin in France. They have ancestors who were abandoned/orphaned and they were named after St. Martin of Tours (known for charity and various canals)

    12. DiNkLeDoOkZ on

      I imagine not everyone with this name is orphaned, right? Some of them become family names? I can think of many footballers with these names and I’d be surprised if that many of them are orphans.

    15. riffraff on

      I never knew Colombo was a foundling’s name, explains why there’s so many!

    16. ImNotNormal19 on

      Interesting, in Spain we do/used to do the same, most common surname for orphans is/was ExpĂłsito

    17. DublinKabyle on

      Trovato 😳😳😳 That’s a tough one !

    18. Glum_Manager on

      It Is missing Rossi, Bianchi, Verdi and Neri (Reds, Whites, Greens and Blacks) as often used to divide the orphans in different rooms or houses.

    21. viktorbir on

      Orphans? Sorry? Orphans keep the names of their parents.

      Those are surnames for ABANDONED children. Quite different.

      PS. One typical in Catalonia was Deulofeu, meaning «god made him».Âč You could also get the name of the day’s saint, so if you were found on 24th June your surname might be Santjoan, meaning «Saint John». GrĂ cia, «Grace», and Ventura, «fortune», «destiny», were other possibilities. It seems Trobat, «found», was also used, but nowadays in Catalonia only 26 people carry this surname. No idea in Valencia, the Balearic Islands or Northern Catalonia.

      Âč There are other variants as Donadeu, Deudat, Deusdat, Deulovol, Deufel… (gift from god, given by god, god wants him, god made him…)

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