American Family Name Origins:
Acierno
Frequency: (233)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: habitational name from Acerno in Salerno province, which is named from Latin acernus ‘of steel’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 15%. Alfonse, Aniello, Antonio, Domenico, Ettore, Gelsomina, Gennaro, Luigi, Pasquale, Stefano; Gerardo (2), Alfonso, Armando.
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