Last name origins & meanings:
- Southern Italian: from the personal name Adorno, meaning
‘adorned’.
- Italian: from Italian adorno denoting
a type of hawk, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with
hawklike features or a metonymic occupational name for someone who
trained hawks.
- The Italian surname Adorno is also established in southern Germany
through descendants of an Italian merchant who settled in Swabia in
1680, and in Brazil, where it was taken from Genoa in the 16th
century.
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