Aquino
A surname of place-name origin, ultimately referring to someone from Aquino in central Italy.
The #1,368 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 11,975 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Aquino is a habitational surname taken from the town of Aquino in Lazio, Italy. The place-name is ancient and is usually traced back to Latin roots, though the precise early form is debated. In surname use, it simply meant a person identified by origin or residence in that locality.
History
The name spread from Italy through regional migration and, much later, through Italian diaspora communities in the Americas and elsewhere. It is found both as a family name and in historical noble or local-lineage contexts connected with the town of Aquino. A famous bearer is the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas, whose Latinized name points back to the same place.
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Fun fact
The surname is historically linked to the town that gave its name to Thomas Aquinas, one of the best-known thinkers of medieval Europe.
Notable people named Aquino
- Corazon Aquino (1933–2009)
- Benigno Aquino III (1960–2021)
- Ninoy Aquino (1932–1983)
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