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Rare rare Mengarda is typical of Samone (TN), Mengardi and Mengardo are probably due to errors of transcription of Mingardi that has a main stock in the Bolognese, one from Veneto in the Vicenza area and one in the Brescia area and Mingardo which is typical of the Paduan area, Mongardi is specific of the Emilia Romagna area that includes Imola in the Bolognese area above all and Bologna, Riolo Terme, Lugo and Faenza in the Ravenna area and Argenta in the Ferrara area, Mongardo, almost unique, it would seem to be from the Marche region, should all derive from variations of the name Domenico, but it is also possible deriving from the apheresis of the medieval name of Germanic origin Ermengardo, or from the frank name Ermongard, which is an altered form of the previous one, we recall at the end of 1200 Ermengardo di Sabran, count of Ariano, traces of these surnames we find at the beginning of 1600 in the Diocese of Mntepulciano, where the monk Augustinus Mongardus operates.
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