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ArchivesRe: Surname in my family, where does it come from???
in reply to a message by Vanesme
I think it unlikely that the name is from Malaga.
There is a place in Northern Italy called Melegano, but I think it would be unsafe to make any assumptions based on that.
One big problem for me is that it's difficult to search for a Greek name without knowing the spelling in the original Greek letters. There are two Greek letters that could be rendered as the Roman letter E, and two letters for O,long and short.
Another problem is that there is very little information available about Greek surnames and their meaning.
A third problem, it seems to me, is that often a Greek surname is based on a word in another language, e.g. Albanian or Turkish. Your grandmother's origins in Macedonia means that she lived in a country where a Slavic language unrelated to Greek is spoken, though her surname doesn't appear to have been adapted from the Macedonian.
There is a place in Northern Italy called Melegano, but I think it would be unsafe to make any assumptions based on that.
One big problem for me is that it's difficult to search for a Greek name without knowing the spelling in the original Greek letters. There are two Greek letters that could be rendered as the Roman letter E, and two letters for O,long and short.
Another problem is that there is very little information available about Greek surnames and their meaning.
A third problem, it seems to me, is that often a Greek surname is based on a word in another language, e.g. Albanian or Turkish. Your grandmother's origins in Macedonia means that she lived in a country where a Slavic language unrelated to Greek is spoken, though her surname doesn't appear to have been adapted from the Macedonian.
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