Lombardo
A surname meaning “from Lombardy” or “the Lombard,” originally tied to the people of northern Italy.
The #2,336 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 19,794 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lombardo is an Italian surname formed from the ethnonym for a Lombard, a member of the Germanic people who settled in northern Italy. The name ultimately goes back to medieval Latin forms meaning “Lombard” or “person from Lombardy.” In surname use, it most often began as an identifying label for someone from that region or connected with Lombard ancestry or culture.
History
The surname is common in Italy, especially in southern and central regions, and also appears widely in countries shaped by Italian migration. In immigrant records and diaspora communities, it often marks Italian heritage rather than a literal Lombard ethnic identity in the old historical sense. English-language records may also preserve the unaltered Italian form Lombardo.
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Fun fact
The Lombards gave their name not only to Lombardy but also, indirectly, to the pawnshop trade term “lombard,” through medieval banking associations.
From the historical record
“CHAP, n.] AMAL, 329 to the Lombardo-Italic Erohimperto ; and also Eorcongot, sacred divinity. St. Eorconwald, holy power, was a bishop of London, about 678, and may almost be reckoned as the second founder of St. Paul's, where his shrine was greatly revered ; and aboxit the same time Erkenoald”
— History of Christian Names