American Family Name Origins:
Naccarato
Frequency: (596)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian (Sicily): 1. nickname from Sicilian nnaccaratu ‘graceful’, ‘charming’, ‘dear’. 2. possibly from the old Ligurian term macharatus ‘drums’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 13%. Angelo (4), Carmine (3), Filippo (2), Antonio, Concetta, Dante, Domenico, Ercole, Geno, Guiseppe, Italo, Luigi.
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