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in reply to a message by Garrett Wood
The only etymology I can find is at http://www.ancestry.co.uk/facts/Granucci-places-origin.ashx but it should be taken with a grain of salt.
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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.
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