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Armanno

Armanno. Attested in Italy, Belgium, Australia, borne by about 23 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Armano

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

ÁrmannArmanni

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being ArmañoArmaño — 1
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Armaño Spain a spelling of the name
  • Armanni Italy pop. 35 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 3 countries: Italy, Belgium, AustraliaAustralia — attested, not countedBelgium — 5 peopleItaly — 18 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 5 people in 1 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Grâce-Hollogne with 5. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
1 place drawn, the largest being Grâce-HollogneGrâce-Hollogne — 5

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Italy

18 Borne — a state counted them — Mazza; Italian comuni publishing their residents' surnames as open data, indexed by the national catalogue dati.gov.it..

Whose archive to write to

426,875 of 1,288,913 volumes held for Italy overlap the 1600s, 1830s, 1850s, 1880s, 1920s, 1940s, 1960s and 1970s — the decades Armanno is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Armanno. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Italy →

Belgium

5 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Armanno in Belgium, so it cannot narrow Belgium's 24,426 volumes by date — see Belgium's own page for all of it.

Australia

Found in a record — Mazza.

Whose archive to write to

1,297 of 1,889 volumes held for Australia overlap the 1950s — the decades Armanno is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Armanno. The commonest kinds: Cemeteries and burials, Church and parish registers, Newspapers and gazettes, Civil registration and vital records. See everything this atlas holds for Australia →

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Italy
  • Carnia, Friuli 6 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Campania — Caserta and Naples 5 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Eastern Sicily — Catania 4 eras Kingdom of Sicily → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → Italy
  • Calabria 4 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Italy
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Belgium
Australia
  • Queensland 3 eras New South Wales → Colony of Queensland → Australia

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