Given name & surname · also Italian
Palermo
“all”·“port”
Palermo is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Palermo is built from elements meaning “all” and “port”.
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Where it comes from
Palermo comes from Italian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Italian Palermo, from Sicilian Palermu, from Arabic بَلَرْم (Balarm), from Latin Panormus, from Ancient Greek Πάνορμος.
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Palermo’s family of names
In English usage, Palermo as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Палермо.
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