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Frignani is typically Emilian, from Ferrara, Carèi (MO), Forlì, Modena, Bondeno (FE), Reggio Emilia and Bologna and Mantua, it should derive from the name of the area of origin of the family, the area of Frignano, which took the name from the Ligurian tribe of Friniati (see FRIGNATI) which occupied the lands of the Modena Apennines in prehistoric times, it must however also be taken into consideration a derivation from names of localities characterized by the presence of a wood of farnie (type of oak). additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Frignani is a patronymic by the proper name Fregnanus, recorded in Modenese papers from 1193, in turn derived from the coronimo Feronianus (Frignano).
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