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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Venetian) : variant of Fornaro.
  • Catalan : occupational name for a baker, Catalan forner (from Late Latin furnarius, a derivative of furnus ‘oven’), cognate with 1 above.

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