Randazzo
An Italian surname most likely from the Sicilian town of Randazzo, meaning a family from that place.
The #4,900 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 42,941 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Randazzo is an Italian habitational surname, formed from the name of the town of Randazzo in Sicily. Surnames of this type originally identified someone who had moved away from their home area, literally meaning a person from Randazzo. The place-name itself is older and not fully certain in origin, so the surname is best explained through the town rather than a securely recovered deeper root.
History
The surname is strongly associated with Sicily and southern Italian migration. It became established more widely as Italians emigrated abroad in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially to the United States and other parts of the diaspora. In modern records it remains most common among families with Sicilian ancestry.
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Fun fact
Randazzo is also the name of a historic Sicilian hill town on the slopes of Mount Etna.