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Type Surname (from occupation)

Meaning & History

A traditionally Spanish and Italian occupational surname for a "grain grower or merchant", or the Italian habitation surname for Avena, Calabria. Means "oats". From the Latin avēna meaning 'oats, wild oats, straw'.
Added 1/27/2011 by ArcticSnowgirl
Edited 5/11/2015 by Frollein Gladys and Ora