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Carrano is typical of the area between Neapolitan and upper Salerno, it should derive from place names of which we have an example in Solofra (AV) where there is a Carrano field. We find traces of this surname in Naples in the second half of the 1700s with Don Michele Carrano, governor of Ischia. additions provided by Leonardo Delli Giudici Carrano is a surname taken from a locality. Indeed, already in the Old Testament the city of Carran is found in Mesopotania. Locality Carrano there are some in the whole Campania: in Teano (CE), in Solofra (AV), in Teggiano (SA) there is the locality Carrano or Carrani. Also in Calabria there is a hamlet or a fraction of Colosimi (CZ) called Carrano, in Contursi (SA) there is a Carrano locality that also gave its name to a motorway viaduct. In the Avellino area there is also Cairano castle which in the 1600-1700 geographical maps is called Carrano. For some it derives from a term of Semitic origin from Car that means rock, high peak, but also rock. Of Imperial origin, the Carrano surname certainly derives from some individual who owned a seigniory with this name. In the Avellino area and in the Salerno area, in particular in the Sele plain, the Latin gens Carania is widely attested, probably derived from the Latin name Cairus, referred to in the following suffix of belonging -anus, which became Cairanus and perhaps carranus, if not also caranus. The diffusion of this surname is connected to the Norman domination. It is known that the Norman conquerors used to take the name from the place that is the predio that they ruled, as happened for many families eg. Aquino, Sanseverino, Marzano, Rota, de Capua, Santomango or Santomagno, Savoy, of Aragon, de Pagani, Avella, Castocucco, etc. etc. During the Norman domination, Cairano (AV) was a fief of six knights who could have taken its name, subsequently following metathesis, but also of transcription errors, linguistic changes, phonetic and sometimes even dialectic, which became Carrano. In 1292 the captain of the principitaria citeriore (Salerno) was a Giovanni of Cahurano, Chaurano or Caurano, an ancient linguistic French of the Provençal-Durazzesque Carrio, as happened for example for Bhauden, de Bauden, Baudino, Bodino, or again for de Baux, de Baucio, del Balzo and many other noble families, such as the d'Alitto, which originally were clarified de Bed, de Lechto in the Angevin period, de Lecto, of Alicio in the Federician period, of Alicto, and d ' Alitto or again for the Curiali family who became Coriale, Curriale, Corriale and Correale. In support of the probable Norman origin, the circumstance that a noble Carrano family is documented by Crollalanza in its historical Blasonic Dictionary also in Sicily, unfortunately without indicating the city where it was allocated and the offices of its exponents. It is certain, however, that a very noble Carrano family, of which the first is the aforementioned captain of war in 1292, flourished in the Salerno area, in Diano also branching out into the Cilento. This family boasts bishops, many knights including some knights of the Jerusalem religion of Rhodes, of Malta, magistrates, abbots, generals. In these places the surname is very common. Probably due to the very ancient customs of conferring to the Villani, that is, to vassals, as well as to the families ie settlers, servants, hired persons, etc. the surname of the Lord and to give the foundlings the surname of the most prominent family, merciful custom all Italian widely known. I think it is very difficult to say anything certain about the primary origin of the Carrano surname. The explanation that appears to me the most logical and convincing is that the word, which for some means rock, is of Mesopotamian and Semitic origin derives precisely from the city of Carran repeatedly mentioned in the old testament in the genesis cap.11. In fact, it debates the origin of Abraham, some say of Ur others say it of Carran. However, many exodus (migration) left Carran. Groups of inhabitants of Carran may have stopped in many places in northern and southern Europe. Such clusters or small groups of communities could have given the name to the localities Carran or Carrano. As mentioned, single people and groups of people could have taken the name even in the Latin-Roman and late imperial periods such as Cairus, from Cairanus or Carranus or Caranus and so on in the various languages of Latin origin, such as Italian, French, English and Irish. After the fall of the Roman empire and the advent of the barbarian dominations of Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Goths, in Italy, we must wait for the Longobards to see the surnames timidly reappear, and this custom will become rule only with the Normans and the Swabians. The Norman knights in particular, we repeat, took the name from the lorded place. Thus if, Carran, Carine, Karran, Caronet, Cheronnet and Cheroneau are the French, English, Soczzese and Irish variants of Carrano, also Chaurano, Cahurano, Caurano, carano and Cairano di Carrano in Italy.
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