Why Do I Have An Italian Last Name

Is the last name Bruschi Italian?

Yes, there are 2280 Bruschi families registered in Italy. See the map. Ciaohttp://www.cognomix.it/mappe-dei...

Why do most people from Corsica have Italian last names while they're French?

Q: Why do most people from Corsica have Italian last names while they're French?Look at my name. Is it French? No. In fact, I have become used to spell it in most of France. It’s a Breton name, an obviously Breton name, a name that shouts my being Breton, a “the first thing you know about me even before you even see my face or hear my voice is that I am Breton” name. Yes, it’s that Breton.Brittany has been an integral part of the French kingdom, and then France, for centuries, but Breton names remain quite distinctive. Oh, I’m French. I’m totally French, born in France from French parents, living in France with a French passport, educated in French schools, speaking French with a Parisian accent, typing on a French Azerty keyboard. I just don’t have a “French” name, if there is anything like a “French” name (that would be Dupont or Durand).Well, Corsican people have, you might guess it already… Corsican names, just like I have a Breton name.

What is the most Italian name ever?

Mario Rossi is the Italian equivalent of John Doe, i.e. the “generic” name. Do you know Super Mario? His family name should be surely Rossi (Rossi is Red). But the second one (if you want to speak of two generic people) would be Luigi Bianchi (White). But Giuseppe Verdi is not the third one, it would fit perfectly but the name is already taken.If you need three generic names, they would be ancient Roman names: Tizio, Caio and Sempronio. Today nobody is named Tizio, very few Caio or Sempronio, because the expression “Tizio, Caio, Sempronio” and especially (even more usual) “un tizio” means someboby completely uncospicuous.But every town has his typical generic name, in Genoa it would be Giovanni Battista Parodi, aka Giambattista or Giobatta or Baciccia or Bacci. St John the Baptist is the patron of Genoa, although the cathedral is dedicated to St. Lawrence. Second place, Giuseppe Traverso.In Naples it would be Gennaro Esposito. S. Gennaro is the patron of Naples. But the cathedral is Santa Maria Assunta (Assunta is a very common name in Naples, and in Italy too).In Pisa it is Ranieri (a typical female name is Kinzica), names found nowhere else. S. Ranieri is the patron of Pisa (do you see the pattern?) but the cathedral is dedicated to (guess!) …. Santa Maria Assunta; San Ranieri has a quite small church, called San Ranierino; while Kinzica de’ Sismondi is the woman that saved Pisa from a Saracine attack giving the alarm.The history how Ranieri became the patron of Pisa is bizarre. At least, this is how it is told, the official story is very different. Before 1284 the patron of Pisa was St. Sixtus. At the battle of Meloria against Genoa the Pisans brought the standard of St. Sixtus, and they were defeated. Then they decided to change the patron, and in scorn of St Sixtus that was incapable to save Pisa they chose two patrons, Ranieri, a former thief, and Bona, a former whore. While Ranieri in Pisa is a common name for men, Bona exists, but is less usual for women. The most common family name in Pisa is Sbrana (sbranare = tear to pieces and eat, like a wild lion does).Italian religion is fun….