Maddalone
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Maddalone
Frequency: (100)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: 1. from an augmentative of the personal name Mad(d)alo, a derivative of the New Testament Greek personal name Magdalēnē (see Maudlin). 2. variant of Maddaloni.
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