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CAIVANO

Caivano is typical of Campania, especially of Salerno, and of Basilicata, where it is most concentrated in the Potentino, in particular Picerno, it would seem to derive from the name of the town of Caivano in the Neapolitan, but, more probably, it takes its name from the town of Calvanico in the Salerno area, formerly called Cluvianum. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Caivano is Campano surname from the homonymous toponym in the province of Naples. At the base there is a name of aristocratic origin: Calvius, and the country was a 'praedium Calvianum' which in the popular language suffered the vocalization of the 'l': Calvianum> Caivanum.

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


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