Surnames in Veneto, Italy

Most Common Surnames
- over 12,000: Rossi
- between 6000 and 9000: Boscolo, Carraro, Ferrari, Pavan, Sartori, Trevisan, Vianello
- between 4300 and 5999: Basso, Bernardi, Costa, Fabris, Favaro, Furlan, Martini, Moro, Visentin, Zanella, Zanetti, Zanon
Surnames in the Provinces of Veneto
Belluno
- Updates: Cibiana di Cadore | Rivamonte Agordino | San Nicolò di Comelico | San Tomaso Agordino | Vallada Agordina
Padova
- Updates: Arquà Petrarca | Campodoro | Terrassa Padovana | Castelbaldo | Sant'Elena
Rovigo
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Surnames Divided by Region
Abruzzo | Basilicata | Calabria | Campania | Emilia-Romagna | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Lazio | Liguria | Lombardia | Marche | Molise | Piemonte | Puglia | Sardegna | Sicilia | Toscana | Trentino-Alto Adige | Umbria | Valle d'Aosta | Veneto
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Abruzzo | Basilicata | Calabria | Campania | Emilia-Romagna | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Latium | Liguria | Lombardy | Marche | Molise | Piedmont | Puglia | Sardinia | Sicily | Tuscany | Trentino-Alto Adige | Umbria | Valle d'Aosta | Veneto
Treviso
- Updates: Segusino | Possagno | Paderno del Grappa | Refrontolo
Venezia
- Updates: Gruaro
Verona
- Updates: Mezzane di Sotto | Angiari | Bevilacqua | Brentino Belluno | Dolcè | Cazzano di Tramigna | Erbè
Vicenza
- Updates: Calvene | Campolongo sul Brenta | Posina | Foza | Asigliano Veneto | Laghi | Lastebasse | Gambugliano
The Language
The dialect spoken in this region is called Venetian and is actually a separate Romance language, with many local dialects; it is also used in other areas, such as bordering regions Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and the province of Latina in Lazio, where Italian refugees from Istria and Dalmatia, included in the newly formed former-Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Versailles, were relocated after the First World War.
It is also spoken in areas of Istria, Dalmatia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, as well as in immigrant communities of Brazil (especially in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Espírito Santo), Argentina and Mexico.
Typical surnames from this region show their linguistic Venetian origin, with a consonant ending, especially -n, the preposition Dal and the suffix -ato.
Typical Surnames
- Among the surnames ending in "-n", usually with accent on the last syllable, there are common toponymic, such as Bressan (= from Brescia), Furlan (= from Friuli"), Pavan (= from Padua), Schiavon (= from Slav areas), Trentin (= from Trento), Trevisan (= from Treviso), Visentin (= from Vicenza); others are derived from professions and nicknames: Marangon (= carpenter), Ballarin (= dancer), Bordignon (= silk spinner); and finally there are the patronymics: Berton, Lorenzon, Martin, Perin, Baldan.
- Some common surnames starting with the preposition Dal are Dal Corso, Dal Farra, Dal Lago, Dal Molin, Dal Zotto.
- Some common surnames ending in the typically Venetian suffix -ato are Bonato, Marcato, Simionato, Volpato.
- Common, typically Venetian patronymic surnames are Frigo (from Federico), Vianello (from Viviano), and from Giovanni in the Venetian variation Zan, as Zambon, Zanatta, Zanetti, Zanin, Zanon, Zanini, Zampieri.
- Common Venetian surnames derived from nicknames and professions include Boscolo (= lumberer), Zanca and Zanchetta (= lame) Masiero (= metayer), Sartor or Sartori (= tailor), Zago (= deacon, altar boy), as well as the common Italian Basso (= short), Gallo (= rooster), Gobbo (= hunchback), Moro (= moorish), Scarpa (= shoe, also a cobbler).