Given name & surname · also Italian

Bologna

Bologna is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Celtic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Bologna comes from Italian, and ultimately from Celtic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Bologna’s family of names

In English usage, Bologna as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with BOLEYN.

Walk Bologna’s family in the name graph

BolognaBoleynBoulogne

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Italian

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Spanish

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Italian

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Bozza

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Celtic

Bodoɣnọw

“crow; battle”

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>99% boys

Italian

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Italian

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Sibling ideas

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