Family name | Number | Notes |
Barbo | 1 | descriptive, origin uncertain. Fucilla, p.51, suggests that the most common origin is a northern word for 'uncle', but notes that it could also derive from barba 'beard' or balbo 'stutterer'. McKee has Barbo as both a given name and byname. |
Basadona | 1 | One Gioan Basadona is mentioned in a letter written in 1538. |
Bembo | 3 | patronymic; possible from Benedetto. |
Bon | 1 | patronymic from a Venetian form of Bono. |
Bondumier | 2 | |
Bragadin | 3 | patronymic; McKee has the given name Bragadino. |
Canal | 1 | locative, 'from the canal'. The second most common surname in Venice. |
Capello | 4 | occupational, for a hat-maker. |
Cigogna | 1 | the surname of the 88th doge. |
Condulmer | 1 | |
Contarini | 10 | locative, from Contarina, 25 miles S of Venice. |
Dolfin | 1 | patronymic, from a pet form of some name like Adolfo, Gandolfo, etc. |
Donado | 1 | patronymic, from Donado. |
Duodo | 1 | |
Falieri | 1 | apparently occupational. Marin Falier was doge 1354-55. |
Garzoni | 2 | possibly patronymic from an augmentative form of Garzia. |
Gritti | 1 | |
Gustignian/Justinian | 1 | patronymic. The final n marks this a Venetian form. |
Lesse | 2 | |
Lion | 1 | patronymic, from Lion. |
Lombardo | 1 | |
Loredan | 3 | possibly locative, from Loreo, 20 miles S of Venice. The final n marks this as a typical Venetian name. |
Malipiero | 4 | patronymic. The name is a compound of Marini and Piero, with the r shifting to l [De Felice Cognomi s.n. Marini]. |
Manolosso | 1 | |
Michiel | 1 | patronymic, from Michiel. |
Mocenigo | 2 | locative. |
Molin | 1 | locative, from a Venetian word for 'mill'. |
Moresini | 1 | A variant of Morosini. |
Moro | 3 | patronymic, from Moro. |
Morosini | 1 | patronymic, from Morosino. The name was borne by a noble family that provided four doges. |
Mosto | 3 | |
Muazzo | 1 | |
Mulla | 2 | |
Navaier | 1 | |
Pasqualigo | 1 | patronymic, from a Venetian form of Pasquale. |
Pesaro | 1 | |
Pizzamano | 1 | |
Priuli | 1 | descriptive, from a Venetian word for 'prior'. |
Salamon | 1 | patronymic, from Salamon. |
Soranzo | 3 | descriptive or patronymic, a shortened form of Superanzo or Superancio 'excellent, superabundant', also used as a given name. |
Trevisan | 3 | locative, from Treviso, a city 20 miles NNW of Venice. |
Tron | 2 | |
Valaresso | 1 | |
Venier | 1 | patronymic from a Venetian form of Venerio. One of Venice's important noble families bore this surname from the 11th century. |
Vitturi | 1 | probably patronymic from Vittorio. |
Zen | 1 | patronymic, from a Venetian shortening of Zeno. |
Zorzi | 1 | patronymic, from Zorzi. |