Our Italian Surnames – J.G. Fucilla

Joseph Guerin Fucilla was a Hispanist and an American lexicographer. In 1880, his family left Cosenza in Southern Italy and immigrated to New York City. Fucilla was born in Chicago on 14 December 1897. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and taught at the Iowa State University, and at the Butler University. He received a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1928 and worked as a professor of the Department of Romanic Languages of Northwestern University until his retirement in 1966. Fucilla died on 22 March 1981 in Evanston, Illinois.

One of his first works was Our Italian surnames, published in Evanston in 1949, in which his knowledge of onomastics and genealogy are evidenced.

Our Italian Surnames covers every fact of Italian names and naming practices. In addition to sections on given names and the evolution of Italian surnames, the book contains chapters devoted to pet names, botanical names, geographical names, bird names, insect names, occupational names, and more. Complete with a list of sources and an index of more than 7,500 names.

You can consult this book online at this link.
You can also use the site’s internal search engine to locate the surname that interests you.

This is the list of surnames mentioned in the book Our Italian Surnames.