Surname Celone
Origin and meaning
It comes from the Greek celòne, "tortoise", according to V. Blunda. The form designates the reptile and motivated the surname as a nickname applied to an ancestor for his slowness, his physical build or some trait associated with the animal in the popular tradition of the Greek Mediterranean, according to the habitual patterns of the zoological onomastics of eastern Sicily.
Variants
Geographic distribution: Sicily
📍 You can view how this surname is distributed in Italy: View distribution in Italy (Cognomix)
Entry compiled from specialized sources on Italian surname studies.
Sources
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:
- Blunda, V. (2018). Supposte origini dei cognomi in Sicilia [Digital edition]. Retrieved from https://www.trapaninostra.it