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17:
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772:
The following surnames are the twenty most widespread ones in
Sardinia: overall, 10 of them are required to identify 10% of the Sardinian population, and less than 100 for one third of all the island's residents.
577:, where people from Corsica are recorded to have settled down and even influenced the local linguistic landscape. A considerable migratory flow coming from the other side of the
535:
Among the
Sardinian surnames which trace their roots outside the island, sometimes sardized, the most relevant percentage (7% circa of the total) is constituted by surnames from
285:, it is possible to reconstruct the history and evolution of Sardinian surnames generation after generation. Surnames were frequently inherited from the maternal side, from the
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etc.). There are also cases of surnames that indicate an
Iberian origin, even illustrious ones, already attested in records pertaining to the Judicates, such as
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60:
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201:, and Petru d'Ardaule cleric, and Petru Contu and Goantine de Rue and Tericu Maiu and Taniel Kerssa and Petru Coco and Benzivenni and Petru Manis.
66:
In Roman epigraphs from
Sardinia, onomastics sometimes appear that would later come back in medieval and/or modern times. We mention for example:
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247:, in which most of today's Sardinian surnames can be found, often written with a slightly different spelling (e.g.
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525:
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Una terra di migranti nel
Mediterraneo : i flussi migratori iberici in Sardegna tra il XII e il XV secolo
197:, and Torbini de Piras head of the circumscription, and Goantine de Baniu cleric and Petru Marki cleric of
21:
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565:, "Corsica"); these are widespread mainly, but not exclusively, in the Northern Sardinian regions of
529:
382:
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occurred, in fact, since the Middle Ages and ended only in the first decades of the 19th century.
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The following surnames are the most widespread ones by
Province, the most common of which is
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470:
298:
282:
240:
385:, the abandonment of hundreds of Sardinian villages during the 14th century because of the
544:
1308:
La Nuova
Sardegna, Il primo Garau fu un “Gherardo” del 1200, nobile di origine catalana
669:
611:
589:
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I cognomi della
Sardegna: Significato e origine di 8.000 cognomi indigeni e forestieri
1147:
I cognomi della
Sardegna: Significato e origine di 8.000 cognomi indigeni e forestieri
218:
Among the most valuable sources for the study of ancient
Sardinian onomastics are the
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1049:
Di madre in figlia, di padre in figlio Un caso di "discendenza parallela" in Sardegna
826:
35:
640:), some of which are documented starting from the Judicates' period, and especially
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211:
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and sometimes already attested as onomastic forms in Sardinian epigraphs from the
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surnames due to the political relations and trade between Sardinia and the two
1083:"Rivista italiana di onomastica, Cognomi sardi medioevali formati da toponimi"
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Rendite pisane nel giudicato di Cagliari nella seconda meta del secolo XIII
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Sanna, Deiana, Spano, Carta, Cossu, Addis, Pinna, Careddu, Meloni, Azara.
381:) now largely disappeared (it is well known, as recorded by the historian
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Sanna, Piras, Melis, Murgia, Pinna, Serra, Madeddu, Atzeni, Garau, Urru.
722:
219:
189:
39:
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Dizionario dei cognomi di Sardegna: origine e significato di 7.500 voci
1101:
Villaggi abbandonati in Sardegna dal Trecento al Settecento: inventario
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1026:
Mauro Maxia, Un antico antroponimo e i nomi sardi dell’aspraggine. 2003
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Sanna, Pinna, Piras, Manca, Mura, Sechi, Cossu, Solinas, Canu, Chessa.
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Witnesses of this exchange carried out with good and mutual agreement:
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Dizionario dei cognomi sardo-corsi : frequenze, fonti, etimologia
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Sanna, Piras, Pinna, Manca, Mura, Carta, Serra, Meloni, Melis, Porcu.
936:
Pinna, Melis, Piras, Sanna, Serra, Manca, Pintus, Diana, Floris, Lai.
946:
Lai, Piras, Loi, Melis, Deiana, Usai, Murru, Demurtas, Serra, Mereu.
866:
540:
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Sanna, Piras, Manca, Carta, Porcu, Lai, Mura, Pinna, Floris, Serra.
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Melis, Piras, Sanna, Serra, Meloni, Lai, Murgia, Pinna, OrrĂą, Loi.
745:; they brought a large following to Arborea, including perhaps the
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Since the mid-16th century, thanks to the institution of the
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206:
Medieval Sardinian surnames in the Condaghe of Bonarcado,
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Relatively common are also surnames originating from the
59:
Caius Iulius Candidus' funerary stele, II century A.D.,
660:; among the most influential in Sardinian history, the
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dating back to the 11th-13th centuries, as well as the
1161:
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473:"), sometimes indicative of a personal trait (e.g.
1430:Buddusò. I cognomi dal Settecento ai giorni nostri
521:"); some of them derive from forms related to the
72:(CIL, X, 7876) that reverberates in the medieval
34:or a long, identifiable tradition on the Western
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297:Current Sardinian surnames originated in the
8:
1298:, Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018
1277:. Cagliari: CUEC. p. 67. Archived from
1352:Sos sambenaos sardos : i cognomi sardi
1255:"Albero genealogico della famiglia Sanjust"
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479:"big") or of a filial relationship (e.g.
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1271:Il Condaghe di Santa Maria di Bonarcado
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108:(CIL, X, 7877), related to the surname
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1231:"Comune di Laconi, Famiglia Aymerich"
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369:of Gippi, from which derive today's
1360:Onomastic Remarks on Roman Sardinia
683:, or surnames originating from the
30:are surnames with origins from the
543:), or those indicating a possible
222:, administrative registers of the
14:
178:Medieval and Early modern records
1414:. Vol. 1–3. L'Unione Sarda.
735:, who partly descended from the
1:
511:" etc.) or trade names (e.g.
1476:Surnames of Sardinian origin
1410:Massimo Pittau (2005–2006).
1377:, 1988, v. 23 (1-2), S. 1-67
1375:Beiträge zur Namensforschung
491:"), and to a lesser extent
423:" etc.), plant names (e.g.
353:, and resulting in today's
1492:
620:or the Italian equivalent
289:up to contemporary times.
614:, the Sardinian-language
588:or indicating a possible
1428:Tommaso Tuccone (2016).
1371:Sardische Herkunftsnamen
1268:Maurizio Virdis (2002).
1047:Giannetta Murru Corruga
715:("John the Catalan") or
559:, that is "Corsican" or
1419:Massimo Pittau (2014).
1404:. Edizioni Della Torre.
1145:Massimo Pittau (2014).
485:, "son/daughter of Mr.
159:Ietoccor Torceri filius
1334:"Top 20 cognomi sardi"
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1400:Maxia, Mauro (2006).
1381:Maxia, Mauro (2002).
1350:Luigi Farina (1971).
1103:. Paris: Ed. du CNRS.
718:Gosantine de Maiorica
391:Sardinian-Catalan war
265:
58:
19:
1354:. Sassari: Gallizzi.
1174:Mauro Maxia (2010).
463:"), nicknames (e.g.
229:Ultima Pax Sardiniae
1466:Culture of Sardinia
1402:I Corsi in Sardegna
1369:Heinz JĂĽrgen Wolf,
1358:Robert J. Rowland,
1294:Alessandra Cioppi,
1201:F. Artizzu (1957).
1163:, La Nuova Sardegna
755:families, from the
721:("Constantine from
579:Strait of Bonifacio
553:, formerly written
341:, a village in the
224:Sardinian Judicates
150:to today's surname
1471:Sardinian language
1366:21:2, 1973, 82-102
1009:Sardinian language
650:maritime republics
303:Sardinian language
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245:Eleanor of Arborea
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32:Sardinian language
28:Sardinian surnames
25:
1320:"I cognomi sardi"
1176:Studi sardo-corsi
1099:John Day (1973).
990:
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932:Carbonia-Iglesias
872:Deiana (toponymy)
727:Arborean Judicate
685:Iberian Peninsula
586:Italian Peninsula
281:, decided at the
132:and the medieval
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747:progenitors
662:Lacon-Massa
601:Di/De Massa
387:Black Death
305:, denoting
287:Middle Ages
193:curator of
1455:Categories
1432:. Buddusò.
1189:Maxia 2006
1036:Maxia 2006
1015:References
1004:Sardinians
897:("fang").
764:"Gerard".
666:Obertenghi
598:, ancient
526:substratum
519:blacksmith
322:Onnis/Onni
38:island of
1438:cite book
1211:cite book
1205:. Padova.
942:Ogliastra
906:Surnames
768:Frequency
741:'s line,
689:Catalonia
471:Sebastian
421:puppy dog
367:curatoria
365:, in the
345:curatoria
293:Etymology
220:condaghes
199:Solarussa
195:Bonarcado
1461:Sardinia
999:Sardinia
993:See also
962:Oristano
912:Cagliari
903:Province
865:Floris (
858:Marras (
835:Murgia (
818:Meloni (
723:Mallorca
700:Canelles
694:Aymerich
674:Visconti
642:Ligurian
633:Pirisinu
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