Re: Granucci?
in reply to a message by Marc
Ettore Rossoni's website -
http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0007r.htm
has a note on the surnames Grani and Grano. One suggestion for the origin of these names is the Norman given name Warren (Southern Italy and Sicily were under Norman rule for a time in the Middle Ages). Another is that they derive from an old Celtic given name. If there was a personal name Grano then Granucci could be from a diminutive form, Granuccio.
http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0007r.htm
has a note on the surnames Grani and Grano. One suggestion for the origin of these names is the Norman given name Warren (Southern Italy and Sicily were under Norman rule for a time in the Middle Ages). Another is that they derive from an old Celtic given name. If there was a personal name Grano then Granucci could be from a diminutive form, Granuccio.