Siciliani - the origin of names in your family?

[Laebat]

Origin of the surname does not indicate genetics.

[Ulla]

Origin of the surname does not indicate genetics.

True.

Another example: there are many Albanian surnames of Turkish origins, but They are still Albanians, not Turks. Or most of Spaniards surnames are of Latin origins. Are all the Spaniards genetically Latins?

We must not confuse genetics with cultural assimilation. And many surnames are the result of cultural assimilation.

[alejandro]

I don't want to give away my own last name for privacy reasons but others in my family:

Costanzo (derives from Constantine) -- Latin
Lipari (from the island Lipari, derived from Greek "Lypàra") -- Greek
Messina (from Messina province, after Messene) -- Greek
Paxhia -- Arbereshe

Last names that ends with one like stallone,bellerone what are they derived from ??

[Elsa]

Last names that ends with one like stallone,bellerone what are they derived from ??

Stallone means "stallion" (in Italian). I don't have any information about Bellerone however.

[alejandro]

Stallone means "stallion" (in Italian). I don't have any information about Bellerone however.

Ok, licari is My Grand mothers lastname what is that derived from ??

[Ulla]

Last names that ends with one like stallone,bellerone what are they derived from ??

Stallone>Stallion; Bellerone I don't know.

Name that ends with -one... it's generally Italian augmentative suffix -one (feminine -ona). Example: bello (beautiful) > bellone (bell-one). Many surnames derive from nicknames formed with suffixes.

Accrescitivo
In grammatica, derivazione morfologica di un nome (sostantivo o aggettivo), per indicarne un accrescimento quantitativo o qualitativo. In italiano si forma perlopiù con il suffisso -óne (f. -óna).

http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/accrescitivo/

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

My surname is said to be of Arabic origin. I also have surnames in my family that are of likely mainland Italian origin as well as some of Greek origin. No Spanish, Jewish or Germanic surnames that I know of, although Germanic given names are commonplace, and are generally speaking the same as the ones introduced by the Normans in the 11-12th centuries.

Don't you have a Basque surname in your family tree?

[Sikeliot]

Another one from my family, one of my great great grandmothers' surnames from Palermo, is "Taravella". Any idea what its linguistic root might be?

[Ulla]

Ok, licari is My Grand mothers lastname what is that derived from ??

Licari is exclusively Sicilian. Could be composed of Li (typical Sicilian prefix) and Cari, according to Sicilian linguist Bent Parodi. But he doesn't say anything else.

Italy is perhaps the European country with the highest number of names, not all are easy to decipher.

[alfieb]

Don't you have a Basque surname in your family tree?

Yes and no. It's a surname that may be of Basque origin from a small town in Northern Italy where Basques supposedly settled hundreds of years ago.

I don't have any 23andMe "relatives" in Basque Country, but I do have one in Cantabria, and I do get 1% "Iberian" on 23andMe.