American Family Name Origins:
Alberico
Frequency: (338)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Northern Italian: from the Germanic personal name Alberic meaning ‘elf king’, which was popular in northwestern Italy and southern France in the Middle Ages.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 15%. Cosmo (3), Gino (2), Aldo, Amedeo, Angelo, Antonio, Berardino, Fiorino, Geno, Luigi, Marco, Modestino.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
