Most common surnames in Europe

[alfieb]

why is the name russo so common in italian and spanish language? It means russian or?

In Italy, "Russo" does mean Russian, but the surname "Russo" in Italy is just a variant of "Rossi", which was used to describe people with red hair.

Literally yes, it mean ''russian''.

But i personally thonk that is a southern italian corruption of the latin ''Ruber-Russus'' (adjective for ''red'')

Right.

[Comte Arnau]

Literally yes, it mean ''russian''.

But i personally think that is a southern italian corruption of the latin ''Ruber-Russus'' (adjective for ''red'')

That would indeed be a more logical explanation. In Catalonia, Ros 'blond, redhead' (from russus) is a common surname too, but not rus, which is how we say Russian.

[Brighton]

Really interesting! I actually know people here with Johansson, Hansen, Melnik, Horvath, Müller, Smith, Martin, Rossi, García and Almeida

So that's Sweden, Norway, Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.. great

[alfieb]

That would indeed be a more logical explanation. In Catalonia, Ros 'blond, redhead' (from russus) is a common surname too, but not rus, which is how we say Russian.

"Russu" is red in Sicilian.
The Russo family are said to be of Sicilian noble origin.

We like to make things complicated.

[Szegedist]

For Slovakia its Horváth, Hungarian for Croat.

For Hungary, its Nagy, which means Big, Great...

[Peyrol]

Top 30 surnames in Piemonte...quite discouraging... (non-piemontese evidenced)

Ferrero
Rossi
Gallo (neapolitan)
Bruno
Rosso
Popescu (romanian)
Giordano (neapolitan)
Ferrari (lombard-emilian)
Bianco
Barberis
Seferovic (???...probabily south slavic...?)
Russo (neapolitan-sicilian)
Costa
Grosso
Hoxha (albanian)
Musso
Cerruti
Colombo (lombard/ligurian)
Negro (pansouthern italian)
Serra (sardinian)
Barbero
Marino
Pautasso
Benso
Cambiasso
Accornero
Pont
Gay
Fenoglio
Bergoglio

[Virtuous]

One can conclude that my bloodline has a history of Knighthood

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[Bosnjakinja]

Top 30 surnames in Piemonte...quite discouraging... (non-piemontese evidenced)

Ferrero
Rossi
Gallo (neapolitan)
Bruno
Rosso
Popescu (romanian)
Giordano (neapolitan)
Ferrari (lombard-emilian)
Bianco
Barberis
Seferovic (???...probabily south slavic...?)
Russo (neapolitan-sicilian)
Costa
Grosso
Hoxha (albanian)
Musso
Cerruti
Colombo (lombard/ligurian)
Negro (pansouthern italian)
Serra (sardinian)
Barbero
Marino
Pautasso
Benso
Cambiasso
Accornero
Pont
Gay
Fenoglio
Bergoglio

Seferovic is Bosniak. I have never heard of Bosniaks in Italy so this is really surprising to me:-O

[RussiaPrussia]

"Russu" is red in Sicilian.
The Russo family are said to be of Sicilian noble origin.

We like to make things complicated.

maybe the name red it comes from russians since red or brown hair is typical for russians.

[Szegedist]

maybe the name red it comes from russians since red or brown hair is typical for russians.

RussiaPrussia only you could say something so stupid.