Surnames in the Province of Lecce, Puglia Region
The surnames have been derived from the white pages of the 1990's for the recent lists, and from sources as indexes of births, "numerazioni" and catasti for previous centuries.
Civil Records are online from 1809 to about 1915 in the section Archivio di Stato di Lecce of the Antenati Portal.
Common Surnames
The most common surnames in the province of Lecce, in the online phone directory of 2020 [numbers in brackets refer to people, not businesses or institutions], are: Greco (871), Rizzo (865), Perrone (597), Quarta (515), Romano (455), Longo (368), Russo (396), De Giorgi (325), Conte (286), Caputo (268).
Surnames of Places in the Province in the 1990s
Arnesano | Bagnolo del Salento | Cannole | Caprarica di Lecce | Castrì di Lecce | Castro | Giuggianello | Giurdignano | Martignano | Melpignano | Miggiano | Minervino di Lecce | Montesano Salentino | Ortelle | Palmariggi | Patù | Sanarica | Seclì | Sternatia | Surano | Tiggiano | Zollino
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