Surname Bergamini
Origin and meaning
the widely known Lombard surname Bergamini reminds the Bergamo cowboys who descended from the Alpine valleys to the Po valley and Aquilani to the inhabitants e Abruzzo who moved to Rome to work in the pipes.
The authors agree that Bergamini is a surname derived from a trade name, linked to work with dairy cattle coming from the Bergamo area and its pre-Alps.
F. De Laurentiis specifies that the surname does not derive directly from the place name Bergamo, but from the professional name bergamino, "worker or entrepreneur of a dairy-cow operation". He recalls that the bergamini, who went to work throughout the lower Po plain, originally came from the Bergamo area and the Bergamo pre-Alps.
Surnames in Italy considers that, in the past, the shepherds who came down from the mountain pastures of the Bergamo area and the Valsassina towards the lower Milanese Lombardy to overwinter the dairy cows were known by this denomination. It is a rare surname, which appears recorded in Pasturo only in 1574.
💡 The surname Bergamini also appears as altered form of the surname Bergami in other studies consulted in this project.
Geographic distribution: Veneto
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Sources
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:
- De Laurentiis, F. (2003). Cognomi occhiobellesi. Storia, curiosità, significati e classifiche. Occhiobello: Teatro Polivalente di Occhiobello (T.P.O.). Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20030516113456/http://www.comune.occhiobello.ro.it/cognomi/
- Research conducted by Surnames in Italy, the English-language project of Ancestros Italianos, based on the bibliography cited in the references.