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Nacar, extremely rare, seems to be typical of Naples and Marano of Naples in the Neapolitan, Nacari and Naccaro are almost unique due to transcription errors, Nacca is typical of the Caserta area, of Macerata Campania, Portico of Caserta, Pignataro Maggiore, Curti and Marcianise, Naccarati, absolutely rare, is in the area that includes Campania, Basilicata and Cosenza, Naccarato, much more widespread, has presences in the Neapolitan dialect, a small stock in the Lecce area, in the Reggio area and in the Agrigento region, but the most consistent nucleus is in the Cosenza area, in Cosenza, Lago, Amantea, Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Paterno Calabro, Rende, Mendicino, Paola, Dipignano, Belsito, Scalea, Castrolibero and San Pietro in Amantea, Naccari has an important stock between Venice and Chioggia, one in Palermo and one in Messina, Naccarella is typically Abruzzese, with a stock in Theatine in Guardiagrele, San Salvo and Casoli, and in Sulmona nell'aquilano, Naccarelli, more rare, is of Palombaro in the Theatine, Naccarello, almost unique, s Empres Molise, Naccarini, absolutely rare, it would seem of Carrara, Naccarino, even more rare, should be Sicilian, perhaps from Ragusa, they should all derive, directly or through hypocoristic modifications, from the medieval term naccaro (drummer) in turn derived from the 'Arabic nakara (sunken instrument) or from the Hebrew nahaq (far bano). additions provided by Giacomo Ganza / Villa di Tirano (SO) Nacar could be a surname of Spanish origin in Spain is studied in the comparative etiological dictionary of Spanish surnames by Gutierre Tibon: In Spanish "nàcar" also means "mother of pearl" so it could also correspond to Italian surname "perla". additions provided by David Nacar Nacar is a surname originally from Salamanca in Spain, nacar in Spanish means mother-of-pearl and is a Spanish surname present between Portici and Herculaneum (near one of the Bourbon summer residences) historically typical area of processing of this material and of the coral. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Naccàri is a Venetian surname which according to Olivieri 163 derives from the German personal Nadker, see Förstemann 1154.

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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